Buckminster Fuller

More from 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.

  • Beauty

• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

  • Nature

• If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  • Education
  • Failure

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