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"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."
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"Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population."
"I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location."
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
"Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio."
"The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear."
"The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow."
"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."
"We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world."
"My patient population has a low recidivism rate, but if they haven't made up their minds that it is permanent, then of course, they will fail."
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"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."
"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed."
"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II."
"During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes."
"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego."
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