We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERInstead, humans will spontaneously take upon themselves those tasks that world society really needs to have done.
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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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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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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.
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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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We live in a decaying age. Young people no longer respect their parents. They are rude and impatient. They frequently inhabit taverns and have no self control.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically.
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For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known.
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I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.
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Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.
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American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.
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