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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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"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day."
"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."
"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, increases in a geometrical ratio."
"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent."
"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."
"The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum."
"Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio."
"You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
"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."
"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."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."
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