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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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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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Everything We See Is Inside Our Own Heads.

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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.

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

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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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I Just Invent, Then Wait Until Man Comes Around To Needing What I've Invented.

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

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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.

You Never Change People By Fighting Their Existing Reality.

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

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

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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 A Verb, Not A Noun.

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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.

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

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.

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Pollution Is Nothing But Resources We're Not Harvesting.

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Here Is God's Purpose - For God, To Me, It Seems, Is A Verb Not A Noun, Proper Or Improper; Is The Articulation Not The Art, Objective Or Subjective; Is Loving, Not The Abstraction "love" Commanded Or Entreated; Is Knowledge Dynamic, Not Legislative Code, Not Proclamation Law, Not Academic Dogma, Not Ecclesiastic Canon. Yes, God Is A Verb, The Most Active, Connoting The Vast Harmonic Reordering Of The Universe From Unleashed Chaos Of Energy.

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

Wealth Is A Measure Of A Person's Ability To Survive So Many Days Forward.

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.

So Long As Mathematicians Can Impose Up-and-down Semantics Upon Students While Trafficking Personally In The Non-up-and-down Advantages Of Their Concise Statements, They Can Impose Upon The Ignorance Of Man A Monopoly Of Access To Accurate Processing Of Information And Can Fool Even Themselves By Thought Habits Governing The Becoming Behavior Of Professional Specialists, By Disclaiming The Necessity Of, Or Responsibility For, Comprehensive Adjustment Of The A Priori Thought To Total Reality Of Universal Principles.

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

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.

Thou Mayest As Well Expect To Grow Stronger By Always Eating As Wiser By Always Reading. Too Much Overcharges Nature, And Turns More Into Disease Than Nourishment. 'tis Thought And Digestion Which Makes Books Serviceable, And Give Health And Vigor To The Mind.

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.

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

Some Of Us Are Just Less Damaged Than Others.

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.

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

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.

All Sports Are Time Control Demonstrations.

Don't Attempt To Reform Man. An Adequately Organized Environment Will Permit Humanity's Original, Innate Capabilities To Become Successful.

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.

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

Thinking Is A Momentary Dismissal Of Irrelevancies.

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

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 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.

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

A Proverb Is Much Matter Distilled Into Few Words.

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If You Change The Environment, You Change The People.

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.

You Can Never Learn Less; You Can Only Learn More. The Reason I Know So Much Is Because I Have Made So Many Mistakes.

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 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.

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.

You Take The Senses Away, And There Is No Consciousness. Consciousness Comes From Experience.

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

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