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> [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 made of energy resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/it-is-evident-that-the-fortunes-of-the-world-s-human-population-for/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

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## More by M. King Hubbert

> [Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/our-ignorance-is-not-so-vast-as-our-failure-to-use-what-we-know/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/the-steep-ride-up-the-and-down-the-energy-curve-is-the-most-abnormal/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/our-principal-constraints-are-cultural-during-the-last-two-centuries/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/it-is-evident-that-the-fortunes-of-the-world-s-human-population-for/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [ \[The\] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/the-first-postulate-of-the-principle-of-uniformity-namely-that-the/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/history-human-or-geological-represents-our-hypothesis-couched-in/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/it-is-hard-to-know-which-is-the-more-remarkable-that-it-took-600/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/growth-growth-growth-that-s-all-we-ve-known-world-automobile/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/so-long-as-oil-is-used-as-a-source-of-energy-when-the-energy-cost-of/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/were-we-a-rational-society-a-virtue-of-which-we-have-rarely-been/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

> [Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-king-hubbert/historical-chronology-human-or-geological-depends-upon-comparable/)

[M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-king-hubbert/)

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