Historical Figure
Buckminster Fuller
d. 1983
American philosopher, architect and inventor (1895–1983)
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Biography
Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr. was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion", "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".
In Their Own Words (5)
Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.
R. Buckminster Fuller on Education (1979), p. 130 , 1979
World Game finds that 60 percent of all the jobs in the U.S.A. are not producing any real wealth—i.e., real life support. They are in fear - underwriting industries or are checking-on-other-checkers, etc.
Pg 223. - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0312174918 - 1982 - History , 1981
Realistic thinking accrues only after mistake making, which is the cosmic wisdom's most cogent way of teaching each of us how to carry on.
In Buckminster Fuller and Answar Dil, Humans in Universe (1983), 218. , 1983
The opposite of nature is impossible.
Public lecture at Columbia University (Spring 1965), quoted in "Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud" at PBS (12 December 2001) , 1965
God, to me, it seems is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
No More Secondhand God (1963) , 1963
Timeline
The story of Buckminster Fuller, told in moments.
Nearly committed suicide by drowning in Lake Michigan after going bankrupt. Instead decided to treat his life as an experiment. He was 32.
Built the first geodesic dome at Black Mountain College. The structure collapsed. He kept iterating. Within a decade, the U.S. military was using his domes across the world.
Designed the massive geodesic sphere for the U.S. pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. Twenty stories tall. The building still stands.
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