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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.

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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.

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My Ideas Have Undergone A Process Of Emergence By Emergency. When They Are Needed Badly Enough, They Are Accepted.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

Dictators Never Invent Their Own Opportunities.

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.

It Is One Of The Strange Facts Of Experience That When We Try To Think About The Future, Our Thoughts Jump Backwards. It May Well Be That Nature Has Some Fundamental Metaphysical Law By Which Opening Up What We Call The Future Also Opens Up The Past In Equal Degree.

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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.

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Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Everyone Is Born A Genius.

I Am A Passenger On The Spaceship Earth.

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.

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

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

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

Whether Humanity Is To Comprehensively Prosper...depends Entirely On The Integrity Of The Human Individuals And Not On The Political And Economic Systems. The Cosmic Question Has Been Asked: Are Humans Worthwhile To Universe Invention?

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.

Those Who Play With The Devil's Toys Will Be Brought By Degrees To Wield His Sword.

Television Is The Third Parent.

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.

Geniuses Are Just People Who Had Good Mothers.

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.

A Proverb Is Much Matter Distilled Into Few Words.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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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?

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

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

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.

By 2000, Politics Will Simply Fade Away. We Will Not See Any Political Parties.

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.

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

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

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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.

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