Books by Buckminster Fuller on the Internet

"... 1. comprehensive propensities
I am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem...."

"But I did get an education in due and slow course, but an education largely of my own inquiring, experimenting, and self-disciplining. Forty-seven years later Harvard's Dean Bundy, who is now one of Kennedy's White House advisors, invited me to come back to Harvard in 1962 to be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...." 

... I dedicate this book to three women: one of the nineteenth and two of the twentieth centuries. First, to my great aunt, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, who with Ralph Waldo Emerson co-edited the Transcendentalist magazine, the Dial, and was the first to publish Thoreau-and herself authored Woman in the Nineteenth Century.

I am sure Margaret would and probably does join in my enthusiastic support and co-dedication of this book to Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, and to Barbara Marx Hubbard, founder of the Committee for the Future, for their effective inspiration to the young world to do its own thinking and to act in accordance therewith...