The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLEROne 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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We are here as local information harvesters, local problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe. The fact that we get away from physical problems doesn’t mean we go away from problems. The problems are really rarely physical.
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Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.
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And we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
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It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.
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Our power is in our ability to decide.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.
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… reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
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We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes.
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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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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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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance.
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Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.
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