Humans Quote by Robert P. Murphy Download Open image “I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity.” — Robert P. Murphy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humans Ingenuity Limits Oil Peak oil Rejects Technological Theory
The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
In my humble opinion, we should now have reached peak oil. So it is high time to close this critical chapter in the history… — Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari Copy Share Image
We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that… — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
There'll be years of teething problems searching for alternatives to oil, but they have to be embraced with passion because our oil is finite,… — Trudie Styler Copy Share Image
When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of… — James R. Schlesinger Copy Share Image
Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even… — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians. — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for… — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our… — Kenan Malik Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image