The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMan knows so much and does so little.
More R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
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Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
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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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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Don’t change the man. Change his environment.
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All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.
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Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.
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I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences – “which is the mostest? which is the leastest?”
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If you change the environment, you change the people.
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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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