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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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In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.
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Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.
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You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
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Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.
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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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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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Man is designed to be a comprehensivist .
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.
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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. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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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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Some of us are just less damaged than others.
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Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to make it economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
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