Occupation: Architect Birth: July 12, 1895 Death: July 1, 1983
You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking..
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has ….
So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their conc….
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamen….
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it..
We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnest….
Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'co….
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the ….
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf..
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes..
Conceptuality is subjective; realization is objective..
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment..
War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual wi….
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their….
There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention..
If you change the environment, you change the people..
With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the….
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting..
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true.
For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ag….
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job..