It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIt is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment…. Humanity is in ‘final exam’ as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.
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Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others.
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