"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.…" — Thomas Malthus

More Geometrical Quotes

This quote is filed under Geometrical Quotes, one of 44 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube… — Terry Pratchett
• The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated. — John Desmond Bernal
• With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the… — Niels Henrik Abel
• The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example… — Alexey Brodovitch
• Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements… — Alexey Brodovitch
• To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its… — Charles Darwin
• Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers… — Thomas Malthus
• If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient… — William James
• A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space. — Gaston Bachelard
• We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic… — Linus Pauling
• The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in… — Friedrich List

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