"Our ignorance is not so vast as our……" — M. King Hubbert
"Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know."
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6 Quotes by M. King Hubbert
M. King Hubbert has 6 quotes on this site.
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not…
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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…
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of…
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The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in…
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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