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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday, which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

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.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics but it is not the path to knowledge.
It has no place in the evidence of science.

If we use fuel to get our power we are living on our capital - this method is barbarous.

"If ever we can ascertain at what period the earth's charge, when disturbed, oscillates, . . . we shall know a fact possibly of the greatest importance to the welfare of the human race."