Thomas Malthus Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

  Thomas Malthus

  Science, Numbers, Population

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.5, University of Michigan Press

• The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.

  Thomas Malthus

  Life, Struggle, Science

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.17, University of Michigan Press

• [P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

  Thomas Malthus

  Food, Mean, Science

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