The most important thing about Spaceship Earth—an instruction book didn't come with it.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

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Now I see the secret of making the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

—Walt Whitman

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Independence? That's a middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

—George Bernard Shaw

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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

—Henry David Thoreau

There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. We must understand the Cosmos as it is and not confuse how it is with how we wish it to be.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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History

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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.