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Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
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 one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries. Corollary to this we find that we no sooner get a problem solved than we are overwhelmed with a multiplicity of additional problems in a most beautiful payoff of heretofore unknown, previously unrecognized, & as-yet unsolved problems.
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.
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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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You can never learn less you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
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There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles
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To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
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Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
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The opposite of nature is impossible.
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One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.
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You can never learn less you can only learn more.
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The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.
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The impossible happens.
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What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.
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Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.
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Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.
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Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
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