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- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
- 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…
- [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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- . . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one…
- A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know…
- Don't fight forces, use them.
- 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.
- 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…
- Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
- Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
- How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
- Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible…
- People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
- Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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- Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. — Jean Baudrillard
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- The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody… — Lewis Black
- 2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world… — David Cameron
- Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much… — Pedro Almodovar
- Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that… — Barry Schuler
- There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care… — David Chipperfield
- Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black… — Wilferd Peterson
- Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all. — John C. Maxwell
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- [T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to… — Edward Victor Appleton