It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERIf you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
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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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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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Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.
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The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.
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Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived.
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All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
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In the United States, throughout all twenty-four hours of every day of the year – year after year.
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If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.
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