Buckminster Fuller Quotes
As a young child, this American visionary and inventor of the geodesic dome often made things from materials he found in the woods, sometimes making his own tools as well.
Image: Photo of Buckminster Fuller, architect, author, designer, and inventor
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
“I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)