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Buckminster Fuller, 1895 - 1983. American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist
To me no experience of childhood so reinforced self-
confidence in one's own exploratory faculties
as did geometry. Its inspiring effectiveness in
winnowing out and evaluating a plurality
of previously unknowns from a few given
knowns, and its elegance of proof
lead to the further discovery and comprehension of a
grand strategy for all
problem solving. SYNERGETICS
Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
by
R. Buckminster Fuller
in collaboration with E. J. Applewhite, 1979.
"Geometry expresses the knowledge of the relationship of things and
provides the means by which we can extend human intellectual and
physical capabilities."
"If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's a little bit like
the body without clothing. There's geometry to the architecture of the
human body. There's proportion."
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