Quotes

None will ever be master of the knowledge of who shall live and who shall die.

Acceptance has nothing to do with it. You may as well talk about a man stepping off the edge off a cliff not accepting the effects of gravity.

If the will is there, the method will be found.

Every increase in food production to feed an increased population is answered by another increase in population. - This says nothing about where locally these increases occur.

Famine isn't unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any species outstrips its food resources, that population declines until it's once again in balance with its resources.

Increase food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

One species exempting itself from the law of life has the same ultimate effect as all species exempting themselves. You end up with a community in which diversity is progressively destroyed in order to support the expansion of a single species.

And what's the good of diversity?

I don't know.

It's certainly more ... interesting.

You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard - they always have someone to talk to.

Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

Newton's achievement was not in discovering the phenomenon of gravity, it was in formulating the phenomenon as a law.