Quotes

If the will is there, the method will be found.

Every increase in food production to feed an increased population is answered by another increase in population. - This says nothing about where locally these increases occur.

Famine isn't unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips its food resources, that population declines until it's once again in balance with its resources.

Increase food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

One species exempting itself from the law of life has the same ultimate effect as all species exempting themselves. You end up with a community in which diversity is progressively destroyed in order to support the expansion of a single species.

And what's the good of diversity?

I don't know.

It's certainly more ... interesting.

You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard - they always have someone to talk to.

Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

Newton's achievement was not in discovering the phenomenon of gravity, it was in formulating the phenomenon as a law.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord woth the world, they will live in accord with the world.

Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will act like the lords of the world.

And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.

It's hard to imagine how the world could survive another century of this abuse, but nobody's really doing anything about it. It's a problem our children will have to solve, or their children.