Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROnly our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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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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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.
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When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.
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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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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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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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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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