I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERSpecialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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Humanity is now experiencing history’s most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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Nature is all that we think we know plus all that we don’t know whether or not we know that we don’t know it.
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There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.
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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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Whether humanity is to comprehensively prosper…depends entirely on the integrity of the human individuals and not on the political and economic systems. The cosmic question has been asked: are humans worthwhile to universe invention?
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I’m utterly convinced that we are all here for one another and that every experience that everyone is having is relevant. It all counts. The Universe is so extraordinarily well designed that it needs all those experiences.
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.
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All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
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