A Few Choice (mine) Quotes From Bucky

Just thought Sunday morning would be a good time to pass along a few of the numerous quotes attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller I found particularly thought-provoking or enlightening.

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Buckminster Fuller

Richard Buckminster Fuller (12 July 1895 – 1 July 1983) was an American philosopher, architect, and inventor, known to many of his friends and fans as "Bucky" Fuller.

God, to me, it seems is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. No More Secondhand God (1963)

The opposite of nature is impossible Public lecture at Columbia University (Spring 1965) [citation needed]

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living. Barlow, Elizabeth (March 30, 1970). "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In". New York Magazine, p. 30.[1]

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. Interview (30 April 1978) Read more at en.wikiquote.org

 

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