Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.

quote by Joseph Wood Krutch
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I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species.

quote by George C. Williams
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Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

quote by Emanuel Celler
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I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.

quote by Ernst Mayr
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Everybody is Getting Out of Town

Population getting out of town,
Population wearing running shoes,
Population wondering which road to choose,
Everybody's getting out of town.

They all want to leave; they would if they could,
But right now the road ain't no good,
If you ain't crying, you might as well laugh,
While you're trying to get out of town.

Power plant, glowing in the dark,
Nobody sure what set off the spark,
They say the island is sinking fast,
Everybody's getting out of town.

Population looking for a sign,
Whose fault is it, living on the fault line,
Better do better if there IS a next time,
But for now, just get out of town.

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poem by Richard Jarboe
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When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

quote by Harry Reasoner
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Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

quote by Frederik Pohl
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G.M. Trevelyan in English Social History (1942)
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

quote by Garrett Hardin
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Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

quote by Peter R. Grant
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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.

quote by Emanuel Celler
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Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

quote by Alvin Adams
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I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

quote by Jonathan Dimbleby
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No civilization can possibly survive to an interstellar spacefaring phase unless it limits its numbers. Any society with a marked population explosion will be forced to devote all its energies and technological skills to feeding and caring for the population on its home planet. This is a very powerful conclusion and is in no way based on the idiosyncrasies of a particular civilization. On any planet, no matter what its biology or social system, an exponential increase in population will swallow every resource. Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations.

Carl Sagan in Cosmos
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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.

quote by Walter Kohn
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The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

quote by Susan Oliver
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None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

quote by Vaclav Havel
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It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

quote by Gertrude Stein
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Man's menace

Suppose insect population is dead,
In twenty five years the world will die.
Suppose human population is dead,
In twenty five years the world will revive.
05.06.2012
[Inspired by an article]

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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