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At First The, Only Subconsciously Apprehended, Approaching Confluences Of Complex Events Make Themselves Known Intuitively Within The Intellectual Weather. Then Comes A Gradually Awakening Consciousness Of The Presence Of New Families Of Differentiating-out Challenging Concepts Of Every Day Prominence. It Is With These Randomly Patterning Families Of Separate Concepts That Evolution Is About To Deal Integratively. As A Now Specific Unitary Problem It May Be Disposed Of Effectively When And If That Unified Problem Becomes "adequately Stated" And Thereby Comprehensibly Solvable.

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At First The, Only Subconsciously Apprehended, Approaching Confluences Of Complex Events Make Themselves Known Intuitively Within The Intellectual Weather. Then Comes A Gradually Awakening Consciousness Of The Presence Of New Families Of Differentiating-out Challenging Concepts Of Every Day Prominence. It Is With These Randomly Patterning Families Of Separate Concepts That Evolution Is About To Deal Integratively. As A Now Specific Unitary Problem It May Be Disposed Of Effectively When And If That Unified Problem Becomes "adequately Stated" And Thereby Comprehensibly Solvable.

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The More We Learn The More We Realize How Little We Know.

Some Of Us Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

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Specialization Breeds Biases That Ultimately Aggregate As International And Ideological Discord, Which, In Turn, Leads To War.

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When I Am Working On A Problem, I Never Think About Beauty But When I Have Finished, If The Solution Is Not Beautiful, I Know It Is Wrong.

. . . So I Vowed To Keep Myself Alive, But Only If I Would Never Use Me Again For Just Me - Each One Of Us Is Born Of Two, And We Really Belong To Each Other. I Vowed To Do My Own Thinking, Instead Of Trying To Accommodate Everyone Else's Opinion, Credo's And Theories. I Vowed To Apply My Inventory Of Experiences To The Solving Of Problems That Affect Everyone Aboard Planet Earth.

The Opposite Of Nature Is Impossible.

Conceptuality Is Subjective; Realization Is Objective.

Humans Beings Always Do The Most Intelligent Thing…after They’ve Tried Every Stupid Alternative And None Of Them Have Worked

I'm Not Trying To Counsel Any Of You To Do Anything Really Special Except Dare To Think. And To Dare To Go With The Truth. And To Dare To Really Love Completely.

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.

[my Vision Is] To Make The World Work For 100% Of Humanity In The Shortest Possible Time Through Spontaneous Cooperation Without Ecological Offense Or The Disadvantage Of Anyone.

Gold And Silver From The Dead Turn Often Into Lead.

Gold And Silver

We Find All The No-life-support-wealth-producing People Going To Their 1980s Jobs In Their Cars And Buses, Spending Trillions Of Dollars' Worth Of Petroleum Daily To Get To Their No-wealth-producing Jobs. It Doesn't Take A Computer To Tell You That It Will Save Both Universe And Humanity Trillions Of Dollars A Day To Pay Them Handsomely To Stay At Home.

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Humanity Has The Option To Become Successful On Our Planet If We Reorient World Production Away From Weaponry - From Killingry To Livingry. Can We Convince Humanity In Time?

Human Beings Were Given A Left Foot And A Right Foot To Make A Mistake First To The Left, Then To The Right, Left Again And Repeat.

Our Little Spaceship Earth Is Only Eight Thousand Miles In Diameter, Which Is Almost A Negligible Dimension In The Great Vastness Of Space.... Spaceship Earth Was So Extraordinarily Well Invented And Designed That To Our Knowledge Humans Have Been On Board It For Two Million Years Not Even Knowing That They Were On Board A Ship.

Every Time Man Makes A New Experiment He Always Learns More. He Cannot Learn Less. He May Learn That What He Thought Was True Was Not True. By The Elimination Of A False Premise, His Basic Capital Wealth Which In His Given Lifetime Is Disembarrassed Of Further Preoccupation With Considerations Of How To Employ A Worthless Time-consuming Hypothesis. Freeing His Time For Its More Effective Exploratory Investment Is To Give Man Increased Wealth.

If Success Or Failure Of This Planet And Of Human Beings Depended On How I Am And What I Do... How Would I Be? What Would I Do? We May Now Care For Each Earthian Individual At A Sustainable Billionaire's Level Of Affluence While Living Exclusively On Less Than 1 Percent Of Our Planet's Daily Energy Income From Our Cosmically Designed Nuclear Reactor, The Sun, Optimally Located 92 Million Safe Miles Away From Us.

Whatever Humans Have Learned Had To Be Learned As A Consequence Only Of Trial And Error Experience. Humans Have Learned Only Through Mistakes.

Brain Deals Exclusively With The Physical, And Mind Exclusively With The Metaphysical.

The Reward For Being A Good Problem Solver Is To Be Heaped With More And More Difficult Problems To Solve

I Say That Radiation Is Inherently Disintegrative: It Comes Apart. Gravity Is Inherently Integrative: It Pulls Together. And To Me, There's A Good Possibility That Love Is What I'd Call Metaphysical Gravity. It Really Holds Everything Together.

A Designer Is An Emerging Synthesis Of Artist, Inventor, Mechanic, Objective Economist And Evolutionary Strategist.

I Set About Fifty-five Years Ago (1927) To See What A Penniless, Unknown Human Individual With A Dependent Wife And Newborn Child Might Be Able To Do Effectively On Behalf Of All Humanity

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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Seeing-is-believing Is A Blind Spot In Man's Vision.

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It Is New Design By Architects Versus World Revolution By Political Leadership.

Racism, Pollution And The Rest Of It Are Themselves Very Close To Extinction.

U.s. Labor Leaders Will Realize That Automation Can Multiply Man's Wealth Far More Rapidly Than It Is Multiplying At Present And That Automation Will Leave All Men Free To Search And Research... Realizing The Direct Competition With Foreign Industry On A Straight Labor Basis Will Mean Swiftly Decreasing Wages Per Hour And Longer Hours And Decreasing Buying Power Of The Public.

Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

Above All, I Am Motivated By The Most Mysterious Drive We Ever Experience -that Of Love - I Don't Think There's Any Influence On My Life That Compares With Love.

We Are Not Going To Be Able To Operate Our Spaceship Earth Successfully Nor For Much Longer Unless We See It As A Whole Spaceship And Our Fate As Common. It Has To Be Everybody Or Nobody.

Either War Is Obsolete, Or Men Are.

All Sports Are Time Control Demonstrations.

Humanity Is Now Experiencing History's Most Difficult Evolutionary Transformation.

Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

Architects, If They Are Really To Be Comprehensive, Must Assume The Enormous Task Of Thinking In Terms Always Disciplined To The Scale Of The Total World Pattern Of Needs, Its Resource Flows, Its Recirculatory And Regenerative Processes.

There Is No Joy Equal To That Of Being Able To Work For All Humanity And Doing What You're Doing Well.

Ninety-nine Per Cent Of Who You Are Is Invisible And Untouchable.

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