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American - Inventor Born: March 13, 1916

The shape and solutions of the future rely totally on the collective effort of people working together. We are all an integral part of the web of life.

Life Future People Together

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

People World End Problems

Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.

People Corruption Cheating Way

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

Truth Think Control Result

With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.

Technology Knowledge Science Better

I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can't see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world's resources.

War World End Suffering

The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.

Future Decision New Development

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

Today World Free Create

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'

You Law Problem Saying

Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.

Democracy Service More Debt

Our dominant values that emphasize competition and scarcity limit continued progress.

Competition Progress Values Limit

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Positive Change Future Design

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

Technology Knowledge Time Future

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

World Reality Illusion Real

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

Change You World Change The World

I don't get upset if people think I'm crazy. If you go to a mental hospital and someone calls you a name, would you get upset? Of course not. Well, that's the way I think about the world. They don't know any better.

You People Crazy World

If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.

Food People Look Care

If we arrive at a saner world in which the maximum human potential is cultivated in every person, our descendants will not understand why our world produced only one Louis Pasteur, one Edison, one Tesla, or one Salk, and why great achievements in our age were the products of a relative few.

Age World Great Understand

Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.

World Selfish Place Down

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

Alone Time Intelligence Society

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

Control Practice Survival Earth

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the shoulders of other men and what they have done.

History Science Man Men

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Hero Science Man Earth

You can play a role in the shaping of tomorrow's world by asking yourself questions like, 'What kind of world do I want to live in?' and 'What does democracy mean to me?'

Me Democracy You Yourself

With media companies today owned and sponsored by large corporations, it is difficult to know whether the news can be trusted.

Today Media News Know

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because things aren't working very well for a majority of the world's population or the environment.

Science Today World Environment

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