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"Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far."
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
Explore more quotes by Thomas Malthus
"Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents."
"In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known."
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
"A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes."
"It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment."
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
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