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Buckminster Fuller

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".

Quotes

There Is No Up and Down in Universe

There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist.

Buckminster Fuller
Cosmography : A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity

Excerpts

There Is No Up and Down in Universe

If you, the reader of these lines,
personally use the words up and down,
you, too, are as yet imprisoned in the Dark Ages.

There are no parallels on the surface of the Earth;
what may appear to be parallel radiates from the center of the Earth.

There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist.