7 quotes
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
- Buckminster Fuller
Transformation
"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."
- Buckminster Fuller
Learning
"When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller
Belief in Self
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
- Buckminster Fuller
Change
"The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life."
- Buckminster Fuller
Self-improvement
"The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow."
- Buckminster Fuller
Contribution
"Either war is obsolete or men are."
- Buckminster Fuller
Philosophy