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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.
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Environmental Inspirational Space
Man knows so much and does so little.
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Hypocrisy Men Sad
It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity’s most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.
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Book Humanity Reading
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
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Politics Way Wisdom
Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Discord Turns War
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
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Boards Earth Four
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.
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Degrees Fundamental Reliability
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
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Design Political World
Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
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Ideas Inspirational Real
Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Degrees Devil Play
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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Love Radiation Together
Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Pollution Resources Technology
Never show unfinished work.
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Shows Unfinished Work
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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Design Tools Wisdom
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.
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Selfishness Standard Technology War