Events Quote by 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

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

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So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than…

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Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks,…

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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible…

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History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

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