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.