Consequence Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

“Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.”

R. Buckminster Fuller

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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

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If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

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