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Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1895
Born: July 12
Died: 1983
Died: July 1
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It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
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You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
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I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
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Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
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Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
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Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.
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By the time you are 88 years old, you have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water.
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The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.
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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
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The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.
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It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.
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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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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.
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We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.
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