The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks,… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
![“[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct…” quote by M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b9/m-king-hubbert-38933_ads_the-first-postulate-of-the-principle-of_1182064.jpg)
