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Buckminster Fuller
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Nature never "fails." Nature complies with its own laws. Nature is the law.
— In "How Little I Know", in Saturday Review (12 Nov 1966), 152. Excerpted in Buckminster Fuller and Answar Dil, Humans in Universe (1983),
Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist (1895–1983)
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Lived 1895–1983, aged 88United States
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He built domes that could shelter thousands with almost nothing, coined "Spaceship Earth" decades before anyone else saw the planet that way, and believed efficiency—doing more with less—could save civilization. A whole class of carbon molecules now carries his name because their atomic geometry echoes his structures.
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Richard Buckminster Fuller was born July 12, 1895, and spent three decades as an inventor and theorist on the margins before the geodesic dome made him impossible to ignore. Expelled from Harvard in his first year, he went on to publish more than 30 books, secure 28 U.S. patents, and popularize terms like "Dymaxion" and "tensegrity" that entered the language of design. He served as World President of Mensa from 1974 to 1983, collected honorary doctorates and medals from the Franklin Institute to the American Institute of Architects, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald R…
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Buckminster Fuller
said
God, to me, it seems is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
— No More Secondhand God (1963)
Buckminster Fuller
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative — full realization for all individuals
— No More Secondhand God (1963)
Buckminster Fuller
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Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. Industry paces economics. It changes the tools, a great ecological change.
— "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), later published in Beyond Left & Right : Radical Thought for Our Times (1968) by Richard
Buckminster Fuller
said
Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
— "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), later published in Ideas and Integrities : A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure (1969), p.
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