Buckminster fuller Quote by Jonathon Keats

I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might - why…

— Jonathon Keats

The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation…

— Jonathon Keats

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy,…

— Hannah Arendt

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their…

— Gloria Steinem

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he…

— Paul Laffoley

Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the…

— Zicheng Hong

There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in…

— Deborah Harkness

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

— Kent McCord

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

— Stephen Fry

[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties every night,…

— Paul Laffoley

Malthus has been buried many times, and Malthusian scarcity with him. But as Garrett Hardin remarked, anyone who has to be reburied so often…

— Herman E. Daly

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality…

— Jon Krakauer