Thomas Malthus

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.