"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.…" — Thomas Malthus
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
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33 Quotes by Thomas Malthus
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The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by…
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is…
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Where there are few people, and a great quantity of fertile land, the power of the earth to afford a…
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The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the…
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed…
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers…
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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.
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Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by…
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The perpetual struggle for room and food.
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The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
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It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are…
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Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube…
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The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
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With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the…
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The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example…
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Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements…
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its…
— Charles Darwin
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers…
— Thomas Malthus
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If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient…
— William James
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
— Gaston Bachelard
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We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic…
— Linus Pauling
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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in…
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