M 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. It is time we recognized that the only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

Sam Harris

#4. It's mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

Janeane Garofalo

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit.

Robert W. Hemphill

#8. 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

#9. Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

Alan Dershowitz

#10. Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

Wallace D. Wattles

#11. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. Education is not a steady process of accrual, but a touch-and-go contest between learning and forgetting, like frantically trying to fill a sink faster than it can empty through an open drain - which

Lionel Shriver

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

M. King Hubbert