Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERWhether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
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Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. ‘Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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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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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages prison has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misorientation and built of misinformation.
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Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products.
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Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Geodesic spheres demonstrate the compressionally discontinuous–tensionally continuous integrity. Ecology is tensegrity geodesic spherical programming.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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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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