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Quote DB :: Authors :: Buckminster Fuller :: View Quote View Quote "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." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Buckminster Fuller Listed in: Beauty Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.85  Rate Quote 13 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Buckminster Fuller "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." "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." "Either war is obsolete or men are." Top 5 quotes from Beauty "Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence." "Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy." "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." "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." "It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."

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