This somehow keeps coming back (thanks to Amir Taaki, it’s his speech that I am using):

One visionary scientist was using his background in engineering and mathematics to look for structures in nature that we could align with society. “I will make my life an experiment” he said, “ to search for the principles that govern the universe.”

He was called Buckminster Fuller.

He wrote a book titled “An Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”.

“You all want to go on a spaceship? You all wonder what it’s like to be an astronaut? Well I can tell you. You are an astronaut. We are all astronauts. We are astronauts for spaceship earth.”