Background Image

...

If I Ran A School, I'd Give The Average Grade To The Ones Who Gave Me All The Right Answers, For Being Good Parrots. I'd Give The Top Grades To Those Who Made A Lot Of Mistakes And Told Me About Them, And Then Told Me What They Learned From Them.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

If I Ran A

R. Buckminster Fuller

...

If I Ran A School, I'd Give The Average Grade To The Ones Who Gave Me All The Right Answers, For Being Good Parrots. I'd Give The Top Grades To Those Who Made A Lot Of Mistakes And Told Me About Them, And Then Told Me What They Learned From Them.

Views: 2

Topic

More From R. Buckminster Fuller

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

"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."

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 You Are The Master Be Sometimes Blind, If You Are The Servant Be Sometimes Deaf.

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.

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

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

Don't Change The Man. Change His Environment.

Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

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.

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.

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

We Are Prisoners Of Our Own Metaphors, Metaphorically Speaking.

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

Does Humanity Have A Chance To Survive Lastingly And Successfully On Planet Earth, And If So, How?

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

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

We Live In A Decaying Age. Young People No Longer Respect Their Parents. They Are Rude And Impatient. They Frequently Inhabit Taverns And Have No Self Control.

If We Do More With Less, Our Response Will Be Adequate To Take Care Of Everybody.

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.

There Is No Such Thing As Genius, Some Children Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

The Procedure We Are Pursuing Is That Of True Democracy. Semi-democracy Accepts The Dictatorship Of A Majority In Establishing Its Arbitrary, Ergo, Unnatural, Laws. True Democracy Discovers By Patient Experiment And Unanimous Acknowledgement What The Laws Of Nature Or Universe May Be For The Physical Support And Metaphysical Satisfaction Of The Human Intellect's Function In Universe.

Education By Choice, With Its Marvelous Motivating Psychology Of Desire For Truth, Will Make Life Ever Cleaner And Happier, More Rhythmical And Artistic.

You Cannot Change How Someone Thinks, But You Can Give Them A Tool To Use Which Will Lead Them To Think Differently.

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

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

The One Common Experience Of All Humanity Is The Challenge Of Problems.

Controlled Time Is Our True Wealth.

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. Caught Up In A Plethora Of Conditioned Reflexes And Driven By The Human Ego, Both Warden And Prisoner Attempt Meagerly To Compete With God. All Are Intractably Skeptical Of What They Do Not Understand. We Are Powerfully Imprisoned In These Dark Ages Simply By The Terms In Which We Have Been Conditioned To Think.

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

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

For Man To Go From Less Than 1% Haves To 40%, Living At High Standard - Despite Decreasing Resources - Cannot Be Explained By Anything Other Than By Doing More Than Less.

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

It Is Well Known That Of Every Strong Woman They Say She Has A Masculine Mind.

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

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.

The Universe Consists Of Non-simultaneously Apprehended Events.

[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.

I Am A Passenger On The Spaceship Earth.

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.

My Biggest Hope That We're Going To Make It Here Is That This Thinking Is Being Manifested & Really Employed By The Young World. Will They Be Going Fast Enough To Overcome The Initiatives Of The Bureaucracies & The Fears Operative In Those Bureaucracies? It's A Very Touch & Go Question.

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

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.

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

Man Is Designed To Be A Comprehensivist .

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

Unsolved Problems

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.

Most Of My Advances Were By Mistake. You Uncover What Is When You Get Rid Of What Isn't.

The Wave Is Not The Water. The Water Merely Told Us About The Wave Moving By.

The Opposite Of Nature Is Impossible.

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

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.

You Do Not Belong To You. You Belong To The Universe. The Significance Of You Will Remain Forever Obscure To You, But You May Assume You Are Fulfilling Your Significance If You Apply Yourself To Converting All You Experience To Highest Advantage To Others. Make The World Work, For 100% Of Humanity, In The Shortest Possible Time, Through Spontaneous Cooperation, Without Ecological Offense Or The Disadvantage Of Anyone.

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

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.

Love Is Metaphysical Gravity.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Truth Is The Progressive Diminution Of Residual Error.

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.

For The First Time In History It Is Now Possible To Take Care Of Everybody At A Higher Standard Of Living Than Any Have Ever Known. Only Ten Years Ago The 'more With Less' Technology Reached The Point Where This Could Be Done. All Humanity Now Has The Option To Become Enduringly Successful.

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.

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

War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics.

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.

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

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

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.

His Unique Selling Position Was To Make The World Work For 100% Of Humanity. .

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.

It Is Now Highly Feasible To Take Care Of Everybody On Earth At A 'higher Standard Of Living Than Any Have Ever Known.' It No Longer Has To Be You Or Me. Selfishness Is Unnecessary And Henceforth Unrationalizable As Mandated By Survival.

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.

Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

Some Of Us Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

Dictators Never Invent Their Own Opportunities.

We Shall Have To Stop Looking Askance On Trends In Relation To Sex Merely As A Reproductive Capability, I.e. That It Is Normal To Make Babies. Society Will Have To Change In Its Assessment Of What The Proclivities Of Humanity May Be. Our Viewpoints On Homosexuality, For Example, May Have To Be Reconsidered And More Wisely Adjusted.

In Order For A World-around Democracy To Prosper, World Society Must Learn How To Prosper.

We Are Operating At An Overall Mechanical Efficiency Of Only Four Percent... Therefore, We Find That If We Increase The Overall Mechanical Efficiency To Only Twelve Percent We Can Take Care Of Everybody. That Three-fold Increase In The Overall Efficiency Can Only Be Accomplished By Redesign.

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

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

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

There Is Something Patently Insane About All The Typewriters Sleeping With All The Beautiful Plumbing In The Beautiful Office Buildings -and All The People Sleeping In The Slums.

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

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

Earning A Living

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

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

The Difference Between Mind And Brain Is That Brain Deals Only With Memorized, Subjective, Special-case Experiences And Objective Experiments, While Mind Extracts And Employs The Generalized Principles And Integrates And Interrelates Their Effective Employment.

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.

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

Humanity Is Acquiring All The Right Technology For All The Wrong Reasons.

None Of The World's Problems Will Have A Solution Until The World's Individuals Become Thoroughly Self-educated.

Pollution Is Merely A Resource That Isn't Being Used Properly.

On Personal Integrity Hangs Humanity's Fate

Search Others For Their Virtue, And Yourself For Your Vices.

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.

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

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

All Of Humanity Now Has The Option To "make It" Successfully And Sustainably, By Virtue Of Our Having Minds, Discovering Principles And Being Able To Employ These Principles To Do More With Less.

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.

All Human Advances Occur In The Outlaw Area.

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

Real Wealth Is Ideas Plus Energy.

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

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. And Never Forget, No Matter How Overwhelming Life's Challenges And Problems Seem To Be, That One Person Can Make A Difference In The World. In Fact, It Is Always Because Of One Person That All The Changes That Matter In The World Come About. So Be That One Person.

Everyone Is Born A Genius, But The Process Of Living De-geniuses Them.

Everyone Is Born A Genius.

Universe Is Plural At Minimum Sixfold.

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.

Only The Free-wheeling Artist-explorer, Non-academic, Scientist-philosopher, Mechanic, Economist-poet Who Has Never Waited For Patron-starting And Accrediting Of His Co-ordinate Capabilities Holds The Prime Initiative Today.

Never Show Unfinished Work.

Unfinished Work

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.

Physics Has Found No Straight Lines. Instead, The Physical Universe Consists Of Only Waves Undulating Back And Forth Allowing For Corrections And Balance.

God Is A Verb, Not A Noun.

Bite Your Tongue. Get A Cinder In Your Eye. When You Feel Good, You Feel Nothing.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

To Do More And More With Less And Less Until Eventually You Can Do Everything With Nothing.

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.

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.

Either War Is Obsolete, Or Men Are.

How Do We Make The World Work?

We Should Stop Kidding Ourselves. We Should Let Go Of Things That Aren't True. It's Always Better With The Truth.

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.

Integrity Is The Courage And Self-discipline To Cooperate And Initiate According To The Divine, Which You Know In Your Heart As Truth.

Mistakes Are Great, The More I Make The Smarter I Get.

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

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

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

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.

All Of Humanity Is In Peril Of Extinction If Each One Of Us Does Not Dare, Now And Henceforth, Always To Tell Only The Truth, And All The Truth, And To Do So Promptly - Right Now.

Nature Is A Totally Efficient, Self-regenerati Ng System. If We Discover The Laws That Govern This System And Live Synergistically Within Them, Sustainability Will Follow And Humankind Will Be A Success.

There Will Come A Time When The Proper Education Of Children, By A Glorified System Of Spontaneous Education Of Choice, Similar To The Montessori System, Will Be Made Possible.

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 Speak Erroneously Of "artificial" Materials, "synthetics", And So Forth. The Basis For This Erroneous Terminology Is The Notion That Nature Has Made Certain Things Which We Call Natural, And Everything Else Is "man-made", Ergo Artificial. But What One Learns In Chemistry Is That Nature Wrote All The Rules Of Structuring; Man Does Not Invent Chemical Structuring Rules; He Only Discovers The Rules. All The Chemist Can Do Is Find Out What Nature Permits, And Any Substances That Are Thus Developed Or Discovered Are Inherently Natural. It Is Very Important To Remember That.

The Word Generalization In Literature Usually Means Covering Too Much Territory Too Thinly To Be Persuasive, Let Alone Convincing. In Science, However, A Generalization Means A Principle That Has Been Found To Hold True In Every Special Case.... The Principle Of Leverage Is A Scientific Generalization.

How Often I Found Where I Should Be Going Only By Setting Out For Somewhere Else.

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

Tension Is The Great Integrity.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Gold And Silver From The Dead Turn Often Into Lead.

Gold And Silver

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

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.

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

Synergy Is The Only Word In Our Language That Means Behavior Of Whole Systems Unpredicted By The Separately Observed Behaviors Of Any Of The System's Separate Parts Or Any Subassembly Of The System's Parts.

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

Man Knows So Much And Does So Little.

I Would Say, Then, That You Are Faced With A Future In Which Education Is Going To Be Number One Amongst The Great World Industries.

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.

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

If I Ran A School, I'd Give The Average Grade To The Ones Who Gave Me All The Right Answers, For Being Good Parrots. I'd Give The Top Grades To Those Who Made A Lot Of Mistakes And Told Me About Them, And Then Told Me What They Learned From Them.

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.

You Either Make Sense Or You Make Money.

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?

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.

Topology Is The Science Of Fundamental Pattern And Structural Relationships Of Event Constellations.

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.

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.

Dolphins May Well Be Carrying Information As Well As Functions Critical To The Regeneration Of Life Upon Our Planet.

Our Brains Deal Exclusively With Special-case Experiences.

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

You Have To Decide Whether You Want To Make Money Or Make Sense, Because The Two Are Mutually Exclusive.

Human Beings Are The Only Creatures On The Planet That Tell Time And Think They Have To Earn A Living.

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

Inspirational Life

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.

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.

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.

Ideas Are Easy To Come By; Reduction To Practice Is An Arduous But Inspirationally Rewarding Matter.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

You Can't Change The Way People Think, All You Can Do Is Give Them A Tool, The Use Of Which Will Change Their Thinking.

You Never Change People By Fighting Their Existing Reality.

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

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

Dwell Not Too Long Upon Sports: For As They Refresh A Man That Is Weary, So They Weary A Man That Is Refreshed.

What Humans Have Spontaneously Identified As Good And Bad - Or As Positive And Negative - Are Evolutionary Complementations In Need Of More Accurate Identifications.

The Nearest Each Of Us Can Come To God Is By Loving The Truth.

Our Power Is In Our Ability To Decide.

You Can't Change Anything By Fighting Or Resisting It. You Change Something By Making It Obsolete Through Superior Methods.

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.

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

I Am Enthusiastic Over Humanity’s Extraordinary And Sometimes Very Timely Ingenuity. If You Are In A Shipwreck And All The Boats Are Gone, A Piano Top Buoyant Enough To Keep You Afloat That Comes Along Makes A Fortuitous Life Preserver. But This Is Not To Say That The Best Way To Design A Life Preserver Is In The Form Of A Piano Top. I Think That We Are Clinging To A Great Many Piano Tops In Accepting Yesterday’s Fortuitous Contrivings As Constituting The Only Means For Solving A Given Problem.

Trending Author

Olivier Martinez

Stonewall Jackson

Ludwig Von Mises

Category