“Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.”
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects of Humanity (1969)
1960s
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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Citations en anglais
“The question of integrity will get finer and finer and more delicate and more beautiful.”
From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), Moral of the work
000.113 http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s00/p0000.html
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards
“The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.”
As quoted by Robert Anton Wilson in Maybe Logic - The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson (2003)
From 1980s onwards
“Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?”
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)
“Don't fight forces, use them.”
In Shelter (May 1932), 2 No. 4, 36, and (Nov 1932) No. 5, 108. Cited in Richard Buckminster Fuller, Joachim Krausse (ed.) and Claude Lichtenstein (ed.), Your Private Sky: Discourse (2001), 17; sometimes quoted or paraphrased as "Don't oppose forces, use them."
1920s–1950s
Inscription on his headstone. On a ship the trimtab is a small but crucial part of a the rudder mechanism, which controls the direction of the vessel; on an aircraft it is a small adjustable tab on the trailing edge of the elevator control surface set by the pilot to trim the aircraft in a steady and level orientation. This use for his epitaph comes from statements he had made in life, including an interview with Barry Farrell in Playboy (February 1972): Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab. It's a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it's going right by you, that it's left you altogether. But if you're doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, call me Trimtab. He is also quoted at the Buckminster Fuller Institute http://challenge.bfi.org/faq/ as having said: When I thought about steering the course of the "Spaceship Earth" and all of humanity, I saw most people trying to turn the boat by pushing the bow around. I saw that by being all the way at the tail of the ship, by just kicking my foot to one side or the other, I could create the "low pressure" which would turn the whole ship. If ever someone wanted to write my epitaph, I would want it to say "Call me Trimtab".
From 1980s onwards
Source: Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Buckminster Fuller / Quotes / From 1980s onwards
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
As quoted in Synergetics Dictionary : The Mind of Buckminster Fuller (1986) by E. J. Applewhite
From 1980s onwards
From 1980s onwards, Only Integrity is Going to Count (1983)
Buckminster Fuller
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Critical Path
Pg 223. - Google Books Result https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0312174918 - 1982 - History
From 1980s onwards, Critical Path (1981)
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), The Wellspring of Reality
In "How Little I Know", in Saturday Review (12 Nov 1966), 152. Excerpted in Buckminster Fuller and Answar Dil, Humans in Universe (1983), 31.
"The Comprehensive Man", Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure (1963), 75-76.
1960s
103.00 http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s01/p0100.html
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), The Wellspring of Reality
102.00 http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s01/p0100.html
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards
Source: 1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), Moral of the work, p. xix.
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
“But it can hardly be read in a week. It takes some study.”
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
“Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation.”
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
