This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
Birth | Giving | Imagination | Important | Intuition | Knowledge |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
I have been a deliberate half-century-fused inciter of a cool-headed, natural, gestation-rate-paced revolution, armed with physically demonstrable livingry levers with which altogether to elevate all humanity to realization of an inherently sustainable, satisfactory-to-all, ever higher standard of living. Critical threshold-crossing of the inevitable revolution is already underway.
Humanity | Inevitable | Revolution |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies. The youth of Earth are moving intuitively toward an utterly classless, raceless, omnicooperative, omniworld humanity. Children freed of the ignorantly founded educational traditions and exposed only to their spontaneously summoned, computer-stored and -distributed outflow of reliable-opinion-purged, experimentally verified data, shall indeed lead society to its happy egress from all misinformedly conceived, fearfully and legally imposed, and physically enforced customs of yesterday. They can lead all humanity into omnisuccessful survival as well as entrance into an utterly new era of human experience in an as-yet and ever-will-be fundamentally mysterious Universe
Children | Earth | Era | Experience | Happy | Humanity | Society | Survival | Youth | Society | Youth |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before -- that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.
Earth | Humanity | Oblivion | Race | Right | Technology | Utopia | Will | Blessed |
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity to progress if it is in the hands of people more dedicated. The figures clean and great alone produces ideas high-end business and noble, and the money it is an engine for selfish and tempt owners of ill-use. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi dragging behind them bags of money?
Business | Humanity | Ideas | Money | People | Progress | Wealth | World | Business |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
To make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone. [Bucky’s Vision]
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
We shall have to stop looking askance on trends in relation to sex merely as a reproductive capability, i.e. that it is normal to make babies. Society will have to change in its assessment of what the proclivities of humanity may be. Our viewpoints on homosexuality, for example, may have to be reconsidered and more wisely adjusted.
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I've been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That's a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we're in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do.
Humanity | Individual | Integrity | Majority | Relationship | Leadership | Understand |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before--that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.
Earth | Humanity | Oblivion | Race | Right | Technology | Utopia | Will | Blessed |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly — right now.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Only if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.
Destiny | Humanity | Individual | Truth |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession — not conscious planning — provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns. Nature's long-term design intervenes to circumvent the shortsightedness of human individuals, corporations, and nations competing for a share of the economic pie. Fundamentally, political economists misassume an inadequacy of life support to exist on our planet. Humanity therefore competes militarily to see which political system... is fittest to survive. In slavish observance of this misassumption, humans devote their most costly efforts and resources to killingry — a vast arsenal of weapons skillfully designed to kill ever more people at ever-greater distances in ever-shorter periods of time while employing ever-fewer pounds of material, ergs of energy, and seconds of time per killing.
Design | Humanity | Kill | Life | Life | Nations | People | Right | Time | Weapons | Wrong |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
The youth of humanity all around our planet are intuitively revolting from all sovereignties and political ideologies.
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. . . . In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual's leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
Action | Age | Feelings | Humanity | Responsibility | Society | Thinking | Society |
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe
Buckminster Fuller, fully Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller
There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.