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We Are Called To Be Architects Of The Future, Not Its Victims.

It Is One Of Our Most Exciting Discoveries That Local Discovery Leads To A Complex Of Further Discoveries.

Unsolved Problems

The Future Is A Choice Between Utopia And Oblivion.

Either War Is Obsolete, Or Men Are.

Wealth Is The Product Of Energy Times Intelligence: Energy Turned Into Artifacts That Advantage Human Life.

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.

It Is Essential That Anyone Reading This Book Know At The Outset That The Author Is Apolitical. I Was Convinced In 1927 That Humanity's Most Fundamental Survival Problems Could Never Be Solved By Politics.

The Question Of Integrity Will Get Finer And Finer And More Delicate And More Beautiful.

War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics.

Pollution Is Nothing But The Resources We Are Not Harvesting. We Allow Them To Disperse Because We've Been Ignorant Of Their Value.

There Are Over 2 Million Cars Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going. Then We Have Over 2 Million Times Approximately 100 Horsepower Being Generated As They Are Idling There, So That We Have Something Like 200 Million Horses Jumping Up And Down And Going Nowhere. Now, We Have To Count That In Our Economy When We Begin To Get Down To What Is The Efficiency Of The Economy.

All Human Advances Occur In The Outlaw Area.

Whenever I Draw A Circle, I Immediately Want To Step Out Of It.

There Are No Solids. There Are No Things. There Are Only Interfering And Non-interfering Patterns Operative In Pure Principle, And Principles Are Eternal.

We Are Powerfully Imprisoned In These Dark Ages Simply By The Terms In Which We Have Been Conditioned To Think.

In The United States, Throughout All Twenty-four Hours Of Every Day Of The Year - Year After Year - We Have An Average Of Two Million Automobiles Standing In Front Of Red Lights With Their Engines Going, The Energy For Which Amounts To That Generated By The Full Of Efforts Of 200 Million Horses Being Completley Wasted As They Jump Up And Down Going Nowhere.

Faith Is Much Better Than Belief. Belief Is When Someone Else Does The Thinking.

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?

I Do Not Look Upon Human Beings As Good Or Bad.

. . . 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 Explicable Requires The Inexplicable. Experience Requires The Nonexperienceable. The Obvious Requires The Mystical.

We Must Progress To The Stage Of Doing All The Right Things For All The Right Reasons Instead Of Doing All The Right Things For All The Wrong Reasons.

Technologically We Now Have Four [seven!] Billion Billionaires On Board Spaceship Earth Who Are Entirely Unaware Of Their Good Fortune.

We Have Reached The Point Where We Are Now Possessed Of Sufficient Information For Each Individual Human To Dare To Exercise The Option To "make It" Rather Than Having To Depend On The Decisions Of An Educated Elite.

Don't Try To Make Me Consistent. I Am Learning All The Time.

Inspirational Life

There Is An Effective Strategy Open To Architects. Whereas Doctors Deal With The Interior Organisms Of Man, Architects Deal With The Exterior Organisms Of Man. Architects Might Join With One Another To Carry On Their Work In Laboratories As Do Doctors In Anticipatory Medicine.

Everything Can Be Linked Together In Some Fashion, In Either A Physical, Psychological, Or Symbolic Manner.

You Can Never Learn Less; You Can Only Learn More.

Children, As Well As Grown-ups, In Their Individual, Glorified, Drudgery-proof Homes Of Labrador, The Tropics, The Orient, Or Where You Will, To Which They Can Pass With Pleasure And Expedition By Means Of Ever-improving Transportation, Will Be Able To Tune In Their Television And Radio To The Moving Picture Lecture Of, Let Us Say, President Lowell Of Harvard; The Professor Of Mathematics Of Oxford; Of The Doctor Of Indian Antiquities Of Delhi, Etc.

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.

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

The Word Synergy Comes From The Greek Sin-ergo, Meaning, To Work Together. It Describes A Mutually Supportive Atmosphere Of Trust, Where Each Individual Element Works Towards Its Own Goals, And Where The Goals May Be Quite Varied; Nevertheless, Because All Elements Of A Synergetic System Support One Another, They Also Support The Whole.

The More For Whom We Strive To Serve, The Greater Effectiveness We Will Have.

Universe Is Plural At Minimum Sixfold.

American Labor Will Realize That Its Function Is Not To Increase Jobs, But To Multiply The Wealth And To Expand The Numbers Benefited By The Wealth At The Swiftest Possible Rate.

Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

I Have Great Hope For Tomorrow. My Hope Lies In Three Things-truth, Youth, And Love.

Observation Of My Life To Date Shows That The Larger The Number For Whom I Work, The More Positively Effective I Become. Thus, It Is Obvious That If I Work Always And Only For All Humanity, I Will Be Optimally Effective.

Great Nations Are Simply The Operating Fronts Of Behind-the-scenes, Vastly Ambitious Individuals Who Had Become So Effectively Powerful Because Of Their Ability To Remain Invisible While Operating Behind The National Scenery.

Man Is Going To Be Displaced Altogether As A Specialist By The Computer. Man Himself Is Being Forced To Reestablish, Employ, And Enjoy His Innate 'comprehensivity.

To Ask A Politician To Lead Us Is To Ask The Tail Of A Dog To Lead The Dog.

If Man Chooses Oblivion, He Can Go Right On Leaving His Fate To His Political Leaders. If He Chooses Utopia, He Must Initiate An Enormous Education Program - Immediately, If Not Sooner.

If Humanity Does Not Opt For Integrity We Are Through Completely. It Is Absolutely Touch And Go. Each One Of Us Could Make The Difference.

You Never Change People By Fighting Their Existing Reality.

Are You Spontaneously Enthusiastic About Everyone Having Everything You Can Have?

You Either Make Sense Or You Make Money.

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.

Integrity Is The Essence Of Everything Successful.

A Problem Adequately Stated Is A Problem Well On Its Way To Being Solved.

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.

Take The Initiative. Go To Work, And Above All Co-operate And Don't Hold Back On One Another Or Try To Gain At The Expense Of Another. Any Success In Such Lopsidedness Will Be Increasingly Short-lived. These Are The Synergetic Rules That Evolution Is Employing And Trying To Make Clear To Us. They Are Not Man-made Laws. They Are The Infinitely Accommodative Laws Of The Intellectual Integrity Governing Universe.

On Personal Integrity Hangs Humanity's Fate

Now There Is One Outstanding Important Fact Regarding Spaceship Earth, And That Is That No Instruction Book Came With It.

I Must Reorganize The Environment Of Man By Which Then Greater Numbers Of Men Can Prosper.

The Individual Can Take Initiatives Without Anybody's Permission. Only Individuals Can Think. Only The Individual Disregards His Fears And Commits Himself Exclusively To Reforming The Human Environment.

Think Of It. We Are Blessed With Technology That Would Be Indescribable To Our Forefathers. We Have The Wherewithal, The Know-it-all To Feed Everybody, Clothe Everybody, And Give Every Human On Earth A Chance. We Know Now What We Could Never Have Known Before - That We Now Have The Option For All Humanity To Make It Successfully On This Planet In This Lifetime. Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.

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.

I'm Utterly Convinced That We Are All Here For One Another And That Every Experience That Everyone Is Having Is Relevant. It All Counts. The Universe Is So Extraordinarily Well Designed That It Needs All Those Experiences.

There Is An Inherently Minimum Set Of Essential Concepts And Current Information, Cognizance Of Which Could Lead To Our Operating Our Planet Earth To The Lasting Satisfaction And Health Of All Humanity.

The World Has Become Too Dangerous For Anything Less Than Utopia.

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.

The Most Important Thing To Teach Your Children Is That The Sun Does Not Rise And Set. It Is The Earth That Revolves Around The Sun. Then Teach Them The Concepts Of North, South, East And West, And That They Relate To Where They Happen To Be On The Planet's Surface At That Time. Everything Else Will Follow.

Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

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You Can't Learn Less.

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Dictators Never Invent Their Own Opportunities.

Our Little Spaceship Earth Is Only Eight Thousand Miles In Diameter, Which Is Almost A Negligible Dimension In The Great Vastness Of Space.

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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One Can Study A Caterpillar Forever And Never Be Able To Predict A Butterfly.

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The Minute You Begin To Do What You Really Want To Do, It's Really A Different Kind Of Life.

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The Highest Of Generalizations Is The Synergetic Integration Of Truth And Love.

When Individuals Join In A Cooperative Venture, The Power Generated Far Exceeds What They Could Have Accomplished Acting Individually.

We Are In An Age That Assumes The Narrowing Trends Of Specialization To Be Logical, Natural, And Desirable. Consequently, Society Expects All Earnestly Responsible Communication To Be Crisply Brief.... In The Meantime, Humanity Has Been Deprived Of Comprehensive Understanding.

Unchallenged, Opinions Became Respected Precedent Then Exceptionless Concepts And Sometimes Even Civil And Academically Accepted Social Law.

There Is No Such Thing As A Failed Experiment, Only Experiments With Unexpected Outcomes.

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

[a]ll The Categories Of Creatures Act Individually As Special-case And May Be Linearly Analyzed; Retrospectively, It Is Discoverable That Inadvertently They Are All Interaffecting One Another Synergetically As A Spherical, Interprecessionally Regenerative, Tensegrity Spherical Integrity. Geodesic Spheres Demonstrate The Compressionally Discontinuous--tensionally Continuous Integrity. Ecology Is Tensegrity Geodesic Spherical Programming.

The Impossible Happens.

With Our Minds Alone We Can Discover Those Principles We Need To Employ To Convert All Humanity To Success In A New, Harmonious Relationship With The Universe.

Selfishness Is Unnecessary. War Is Obsolete.

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.

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?

Let Architects Sing Of Aesthetics That Bring Rich Clients In Hordes To Their Knees; Just Give Me A Home, In A Great Circle Dome Where Stresses And Strains Are At Ease.

Never Forget That You Are One Of A Kind. Never Forget That If There Weren't Any Need For You In All Your Uniqueness To Be On This Earth, You Wouldn't Be Here In The First Place.

... Reform The Environment And Not Man; Being Absolutely Confident That If You Give Man The Right Environment, He Will Behave Favorably.

A Problem Adequately Stated Is A Problem Solved Theoretically And Immediately, And Therefore Subsequently To Be Solved, Realistically.

Tombs Are The Clothes Of The Dead And A Grave Is A Plain Suit; While An Expensive Monument Is One With Embroidery.

Children Are Born True Scientists. They Spontaneously Experiment And Experience And Reexperience Again. They Select, Combine, And Test, Seeking To Find Order In Their Experiences - "which Is The Mostest? Which Is The Leastest?" They Smell, Taste, Bite, And Touch-test For Hardness, Softness, Springiness, Roughness, Smoothness, Coldness, Warmness: They Heft, Shake, Punch, Squeeze, Push, Crush, Rub, And Try To Pull Things Apart.

It Is Essential To Release Humanity From The False Fixations Of Yesterday Which Seem Now To Bind It To A Rationale Of Action Leading Only To Extinction.

In Order To Change An Existing Paradigm You Do Not Struggle To Try And Change The Problematic Model. You Create A New Model And Make The Old One Obsolete.

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.

Dear Reader, Traditional Human Power Structures And Their Reign Of Darkness Are About To Be Rendered Obsolete.

All Children Are Born Geniuses, And We Spend The First Six Years Of Their Lives Degeniusing Them.

God, To Me, It Seems, Is A Verb Not A Noun, Proper Or Improper.

You Never Change Things By Fighting The Existing Reality. To Change Something, Build A New Model That Makes The Existing Model Obsolete.

I'm Not Trying To Copy Nature, I'm Trying To Find The Principles She's Using.

I'm Not A Genius. I'm Just A Tremendous Bundle Of Experience.

Every Time Man Makes A New Experiment He Always Learns More. He Cannot Learn Less.

Mind Is The Antithesis Of Reflex, And Only Mind Could Discover Mind

It Seemed That The Time Would Come Evolutionarily When Humans Might Have Acquired Enough Knowledge Of Generalized Principles To Permit A Graduation From Class-two (entropically Selfish) Evolution Into Class-one (syntropically Cooperative) Evolution, Thereafter Making All The Right Moves For All The Right Reasons.

Nature Is Trying Very Hard To Make Us Succeed, But Nature Does Not Depend On Us. We Are Not The Only Experiment.

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.

Social Behavior

People Should Think Things Out Fresh And Not Just Accept Conventional Terms And The Conventional Way Of Doing Things.

You Don't Belong To You. You Belong To The Universe And You're Here To Serve.

One Of Humanity's Prime Drives Is To Understand And Be Understood. All Other Living Creatures Are Designed For Highly Specialized Tasks. Man Seems Unique As The Comprehensive Comprehender And Co-ordinator Of Local Universe Affairs.

Children Will Draw Pictures With Everything In Them...houses And Trees And People And Animals...and The Sun And The Moon. Grown-up Says, "that's A Nice Picture, Honey, But You Put The Moon And The Sun In The Sky At The Same Time And That Isn't Right." But The Child Is Right! The Sun And Moon Are In The Sky At The Same Time.

Degrees Of Accuracy Are Only Degrees Of Refinement And Magnitude In No Way Affects The Fundamental Reliability, Which Refers, As Directional Or Angular Sense, Toward Centralized Truths. Truth Is A Relationship.

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

Whether It Is To Be Utopia Or Oblivion Will Be A Touch-and-go Relay Race Right Up To The Final Moment.... Humanity Is In 'final Exam' As To Whether Or Not It Qualifies For Continuance In Universe.

Here Is An Educational Bombshell: Take From All Of Today's Industrial Nations All Their Industrial Machinery And All Their Energy-distributing Networks, And Leave Them All Their Ideologies, All Their Political Leaders, And All Their Political Organizations, And I Can Tell You That Within Six Months, Two Billion People Will Die Of Starvation, Having Gone Through Great Pain And Deprivation Along The Way.

We Are Here As Local Information Harvesters, Local Problem-solvers In Support Of The Integrity Of Eternally Regenerative Universe. The Fact That We Get Away From Physical Problems Doesn't Mean We Go Away From Problems. The Problems Are Really Rarely Physical.

I Am Deeply Impressed With The Designer Of The Universe; I Am Confident I Couldnt Have Done Anywhere Near Such A Good Job.

It Is Not For Me To Change You. The Question Is, How Can I Be Of Service To You Without Diminishing Your Degrees Of Freedom?

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.

Everything You've Learned In School As "obvious" Becomes Less And Less Obvious As You Begin To Study The Universe.

Perception Is One Millionth Of One Percent Reality (truth In Fact).

We Must Do Away With The Absolutely Specious Notion That Everybody Has To Earn A Living.

Earning A Living

A Pattern Has An Integrity Independent Of The Medium By Virtue Of Which You Have Received The Information That It Exists.

Right Now I Am A Passenger On Space Vehicle Earth Zooming About The Sun At 60,000 Miles Per Hour Somewhere In The Solar System.

Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

There Is No Energy Crisis, Only A Crisis Of Ignorance.

Ignorance And Greed Are Part Of The Evolutionary Process, Which Is Just To Say That Mistakes Are Part Of Learning. There Is Nothing Bad About Behaviors Or Perceptions That Do Not Work; They Simply Have To Be Given Up And Replaced By Behaviors Or Perceptions That Do Work.

The Assumption Is That The Inevitability Of A Solution's Realization Is Inherent In The Interaction Of Human Intellect And The Constantly Transformative Evolution Of Physical Universe.

The Most Important Thing About Spaceship Earth - An Instruction Book Didn't Come With It.

The Vector Equilibrium Is The Zero Point For Happenings Or Nonhappenings: It Is The Empty Theater And Empty Circus And Empty Universe Ready To Accommodate Any Act And Any Audience.

"the Further Art Advances The Closer It Approaches Science," Said Leonardo Da Vinci, Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer, And Inventor Of The Wheelbarrow, And Other Useful Instruments From The Speaking Tube To A Mechanically Gyp-proof Whore-house, "the Further Science Advances The Closer It Approaches Art."

That Which Is Communicated, I.e., Understood, Is Metaphysical. The Means Of Communication Is Physical.

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.

Each One Of Us Has Something To Contribute. This Really Depends On Each One Doing Their Own Thinking, But Not Following Any Kind Of Rule.

The Self-commissioned Architect Is The Obviously Exclusive Potential - For As At Present Used, Or Designed, The World's Resources Are Serving Only Forty-four Per Cent Of Humanity.

The Purpose Of Our Lives Is To Add Value To The People Of This Generation And Those That Follow.

...primarily The Individual Is Going To Study At Home.

All Children Are Born Geniuses; 9,999 Out Of Every 10,000 Are Swiftly, Inadvertently Degeniusized By Grownups.

God Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

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

Coping With The Totality Of Spaceship Earth And Universe Is Ahead For All Of Us.

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

Controlled Time Is Our True Wealth.

To Expose A 4.2 Trillion Dollar Ripoff Of The American People By The Stockholders Of The 1000 Largest Corporations Over The Last One-hundred Years Will Be A Tall Order Of Business.

Consisting Mostly Of Recirculating Scrapped Metals, 80% Of All The Metals That Have Ever Been Mined Are Still At Work.

Man Knows So Much And Does So Little.

I Look For What Needs To Be Done. After All, That's How The Universe Designs Itself.

All Sports Are Time Control Demonstrations.

Since The Initial Publication Of The Chart Of The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Humans Have Learned That What They Can Touch, Smell, See, And Hear Is Less Than One-millionth Of Reality. Ninety- Nine Percent Of All That Is Going To Affect Our Tomorrows Is Being Developed By Humans Using Instruments And Working In Ranges Of Reality That Are Nonhumanly Sensible.

Love Is Omni-inclusive, Progressively Exquisite, Understanding And Compassionately Attuned To Other Than Self.

Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

I Have To Say, I Think That We Are In Some Kind Of Final Examination As To Whether Human Beings Now, With This Capability To Acquire Information And To Communicate, Whether We're Really Qualified To Take On The Responsibility We're Designed To Be Entrusted With. And This Is Not A Matter Of An Examination Of The Types Of Governments, Nothing To Do With Politics, Nothing To Do With Economic Systems. It Has To Do With The Individual. Does The Individual Have The Courage To Really Go Along With The Truth?

Havenotness Is Caused By Society's Failure To Design And Produce The Right Tools And Goods. Money Alone Is Not The Panacea.

Universe Is The Aggregate Of All Humanity's Consciously Apprehended And Communicated Nonsimultaneous And Only Partially Overlapping Experiences.

The Most Important Part About Tomorrow Is Not The Technology Or The Automation, But That Man Is Going To Come Into Entirely New Relationships With His Fellow Men. He Will Retain Much More In His Everyday Life Of What We Term The Naïveté And Idealism Of The Child. I Think The Way To See What Tomorrow Is Going To Look Like Is Just To Look At Our Children.

New Relationship

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.

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.

Always Tell Only The Truth, And All The Truth, And Do So Promptly - Right Now.

Nature Is All That We Think We Know Plus All That We Don't Know Whether Or Not We Know That We Don't Know It.

Life Is The Spirit Incarnate In Time.

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.

Universe Is Synergetic. Life Is Synergetic.

Everyone Is Born A Genius.

Unity Is Plural And, At A Minimum, Is Two.

A New, Self-employed Architect Scientist Is The One In All The World Who May Accelerate Realization Of A High-standard Survival For All, As Now Completely Practical Within The Scope Of Available Technology.

Conceptuality Is Subjective; Realization Is Objective.

[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.

Out Of My General World-pattern-trend Studies There Now Comes Strong Evidence That Nothing Is Going To Be Quite So Surprising And Abrupt In The Future History Of Man As The Forward Evolution In The Educational Process.

There Is Enough For Everyone. People Think That There Isn't Enough, So They Get As Much As They Can, So Many People Don't Have Enough.

There Is Room Enough Indoors In New York City For The Whole 1963 World's Population To Enter, With Room Enough Inside For All Hands To Dance The Twist In Average Nightclub Proximity.

The Pyramids, Attached With Age, Have Forgotten The Names Of Their Founders.

The Universe Consists Of Non-simultaneously Apprehended Events.

Whether We Are Able To Be A Complete Success Or Failure Is In Such Critical Balance That Every Smallest Human Test Of Integrity Every Smallest Moment-to-moment Decision Tips The Scales Affirmatively Or Negatively.

It Is The Integrity Of Each Individual Human That Is In Final Examination. On Personal Integrity Hangs Humanity's Fate.

You Cannot Question An Assumption You Do Not Know You Have Made.

We Are Most Probably Here For Local Information-gathering And Local-universe Problem-solving In Support Of The Integrity Of Eternally Regenerative Universe.

I Live On Earth At Present, And I Don’t Know What I Am. I Know That I Am Not A Category. I Am Not A Thing — A Noun. I Seem To Be A Verb, An Evolutionary Process – An Integral Function Of The Universe.

Either Man Is Obsolete Or War Is. War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics. Political Leaders Look Out Only For Their Own Side. Politicians Are Always Realistically Maneuvering For The Next Election. They Are Obsolete As Fundamental Problem-solvers.

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.

Synergy Means Behavior Of Whole Systems Unpredicted By The Behavior Of Their Parts.

The Dark Ages Still Reign Over All Humanity, And The Depth And Persistence Of This Domination Are Only Now Becoming Clear. This Dark Ages Prison Has No Steel Bars, Chains, Or Locks. Instead, It Is Locked By Misorientation And Built Of Misinformation.

If We Design The Environment Properly It Will Permit Both Child And Adult To Develop Safely And To Behave Logically.

If You Want To Teach People A New Way Of Thinking, Don't Bother Trying To Teach Them. Instead, Give Them A Tool, The Use Of Which Will Lead To New Ways Of Thinking.

We Must Start With Scientific Fundamentals, And That Means With The Data Of Experiments And Not With Assumed Axioms Predicated Only Upon The Misleading Nature Of That Which Only Superficially Seems To Be Obvious. It Is The Consensus Of Great Scientists That Science Is The Attempt To Set In Order The Facts Of Experience.

The Things To Do Are: The Things That Need Doing: That You See Need To Be Done, And That No One Else Seems To See Need To Be Done. Then You Will Conceive Your Own Way Of Doing That Which Needs To Be Done - That No One Else Has Told You To Do Or How To Do It. This Will Bring Out The Real You That Often Gets Buried Inside A Character That Has Acquired A Superficial Array Of Behaviors Induced Or Imposed By Others On The Individual.

There Is Nothing In A Caterpillar That Tells You It's Going To Be A Butterfly.

I Am Convinced All Of Humanity Is Born With More Gifts Than We Know. Most Are Born Geniuses And Just Get De-geniused Rapidly.

When I'm Working On A Problem, I Never Think About Beauty. I Think Only How To Solve The Problem.

Doing The Right Things For The Wrong Reasons Is Typical Of Humanity. Precession - Not Conscious Planning - Provides A Productive Outcome For Misguided Political And Military Campaigns.

I Call Intuition Cosmic Fishing. You Feel A Nibble, Then You've Got To Hook The Fish.

I Find Man Utterly Unaware Of What His Wealth Is Or His Fundamental Capability Is. He Says Time And Again, "we Can't Afford It." For Instance, We Are Saying Now That We Can't Afford To Do Anything About Pollution But After The Costs Of Not Doing Something About Pollution Have Multiplied Many Fold Beyond What It Would Cost To Correct It Now, We Will Spend Many Fold What It Would Cost Us Now To Correct It.

Parents Are Usually More Careful To Bestow Knowledge On Their Children Rather Than Virtue, The Art Of Speaking Well Rather Than Doing Well; But Their Manners Should Be Of The Greatest Concern.

The End Move In Politics Is Always To Pick Up A Gun.

Some Of Us Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

How Much Does Your Building Weigh? A Question Often Used To Challenge Architects To Consider How Efficiently Materials Were Used For The Space Enclosed.

God Is The Great Comprehensive A Priori Integrity Of Universe Within Which Human Beings Find Themselves To Be Operating.

On First Priority In Design Consideration Is The Full Realization Of Individual Potential In Order To Reach The Second Derivative Full Realization For All Individuals

War Is Obsolete. We Are Not Here To Fight Something Or Tear Something Down; We Are Here To Be The Example Of What Is Possible. Any Sane Individual Will Tell You That Violence Is ... Not The Way.

Universe To Each Must Be All That Is, Including Me. Environment In Turn Must Be All That Is, Excepting Me.

The Things To Do Are: The Things That Need Doing, That You See Need To Be Done, And That No One Else Seems To See Need To Be Done.

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