M. King Hubbert

Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— M. King Hubbert

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

— 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…

— M. King Hubbert

Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— M. King Hubbert