The Dymaxion American
an excerpt from Time Magazine, Vol.83 no.2, January 10, 1964

He has been called “the first poet of technology,” “the greatest living genius of industrial-technical realization in building,“ “an anticipator of the world to come--which is different from being a prophet,” “a seminal thinker,” and “an inspired child.” But all these encomiums are fairly recent. For most of his life, R. Buckminster Fuller was known simply as a crackpot.

He is also something more than the mere sum of his praise and criticism. He is a throwback to the classic American individualist, a mold which produced Thomas Edison and Thoreau--men with the fresh eye that sees and questions everything anew, and the crotchety mind that refuses to believe there is anything that cannot be done. What Fuller sees excites him with the vision of man's potentialities, and he has made it his mission to help man realize them. Says he: “Man knows so much and does so little.”

关于美国最大限度利用能源的理论
选自《泰晤士报》，1964年1月10号第83卷

富勒博士被称为第一个“科技的诗人”，一个伟大的将建筑学等工业科技完全利用的天才，一个与之前完全不同的能预测世界走向的先知，一个对以后发展有巨大影响的思想家，一个有创造力的孩子，但是，所有的这些赞美之词都来自于不久之前。作为他生命的大半部分，富勒博士被称为狂人。

其实，他同样是一个值得赞美并且也值得批评的人，他是一个批判现实的个人主义者，一个托马思爱迪生的理论延展者。他可以用鲜亮的眼光去看待每个问题和答案，然后用他的反复无常的概念去拒绝相信那些已经被研究过的事实。什么能让富勒博士产生如此大的潜能和可能性，并且让他把自己的目标定为帮助全人类认识和理解问题，他说过：“人类知道的如此之多，却实践得如此之少。”