Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERHuman beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.
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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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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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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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As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
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Only 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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…primarily the individual is going to study at home.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
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