""All religions were based on the idea that there wasn't enough to go around and that this earth was awful. The next earth, where we would go after we die would be better. That was all based on the idea that there wasn't enough to go around - Malthusian theory. Fuller said there's plenty to go around, if we just use it wisely, and that we had to do more with less.

He used the term ephemeralization, which, even though I was only eighteen at the time, hit me right between the eyes, because it was dematerialization - it was a metaphysical idea. If you carry that more-with-less to the extreme, instead of more with less, you do everything with nothing.

He showed that the moon is spinning around the earth as if it was on the end of a cable; being centrifugally flung around like you tie a string around a rock and spin it around your head. But the "cable"was infinitely small. It was a force and the cable wasn't actually there.""
- J Baldwin, 'Encounters with the Mentor'