How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLERThe explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied.
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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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[A]ll the categories of creatures act individually as special-case and may be linearly analyzed; retrospectively, it is discoverable that inadvertently they are all interaffecting one another synergetically as a spherical, interprecessionally regenerative, tensegrity spherical integrity.
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One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
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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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Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.
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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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Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men.
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God is a verb, not a noun.
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People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
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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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