“Gravity is the inwardly cohering force acting integratively on all systems. Radiation is the outwardly disintegrating force acting divisively upon all systems.”

—  Buckminster Fuller

000.113 http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s00/p0000.html
1970s, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), "Synergy" onwards

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