Buckminster Fuller

Date of Birth:

12-Jul-1895

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

R. Buckminster Fuller was most famous for his work at Dymaxion House, Dymaxion Bathroom, and Dymaxion Car and as a designer of the geodeic dome — as a way to find a more environmentally-friendly space with less material use. He wrote in No More Secondhand Gods, saying: "It is my philosophy. I need to not only transform my knowledge but find anything I can learn from the experiences of other men to be statements of evolution and explain the problems of the problem in response. "He has also described himself as a" strategic thinker. Fuller was born July 12, 1895, in Milton, Massachusetts, and attended Milton Academy. As a young man, he remained neutral, and in 1913 he rejected formal education at Harvard, a college that raised four generations of Fullers. During World War I he was assigned to the American Civil War, where he had the opportunity to incorporate his creative mind; designed the seaplane rescue boom and the boom.

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QUOTES BY Buckminster Fuller

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.

“Dare to be naïve.”

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”

“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty........ but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.”

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

“Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.”

“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,