435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

"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."

"I see God in the instruments and mechanisms that work reliably."

"The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow."

"We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think."

"Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

"Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process."

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

"I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries."

"I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true"

"A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist."