Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERMind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind
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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.
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Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.
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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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It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.
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It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
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Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which, in turn, leads to war.
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All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.
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Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
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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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Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
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He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
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Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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