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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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 the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.
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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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Conceptuality is subjective realization is objective.
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Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.
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You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.
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The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.
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Everything we see is inside our own heads.
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
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Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.
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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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Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?
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I am a passenger on the spaceship 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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Ideas are easy to come by reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.
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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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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.
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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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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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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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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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