King Hubbert Quotes

#1. History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

M. King Hubbert

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

M. King Hubbert

#3. My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

Debi Mazar

#4. There is nothing exceptional about today, except that today can be a day of new beginnings, of crossing lines in the sand, of deciding that you are sick of prison, and you want freedom.

Mike Erre

#5. You did say something I found offensive yesterday.
What was that?
I believe the word you used was friends.

J.R. Richardson

#6. Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Denis Diderot

#7. It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources.

M. King Hubbert

#8. Every day is a new promise, Ben," I told him sharply. "Every night I go to sleep knowin' it's a promise, every day I wake knowin' in some way it's gonna be fulfilled. And repeat. For ... hopefully ... ever.

Kristen Ashley

#9. So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when
the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes
greater than the energy content of the oil, production
will cease no matter what the monetary price may
be.

M. King Hubbert

#10. But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
[G. W. Richmann died from being hit by lightning, which he had been investigating.]

Joseph Priestley

#11. It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.

M. King Hubbert

#12. The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

Paul Krugman

#13. Real estate offers huge financial advantages to those who will learn the system.

Garrett Sutton

#14. Makes perfect sense. In a problematic way. But life is problematic, so novels must be too.

Scott Westerfeld

#15. who bore him three children

William Shakespeare

#16. Let's not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we've seen without changing one word.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#17. Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

M. King Hubbert