We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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Love is a metaphysical gravity.
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Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to “make it” economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.
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The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.
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You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
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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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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate ‘comprehensivity.
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