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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.

-R. Buckminster Fuller

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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.

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

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

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Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

Universe Is Synergetic. Life Is Synergetic.

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

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

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

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War Is The Ultimate Tool Of Politics.

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

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Fire Is The Sun Unwinding From The Tree's Log.

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

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

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

A Fool With A Tool Still Remains A Fool.

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

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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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Some Of Us Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

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

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