Famous Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Below are famous quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller - US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983).

A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries....

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

Dare to be naive.

God is a verb.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

I am the only guinea pig I have.

I think I am a verb.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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