Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months. - Vaclav Smil
You get up and, first thing in the morning, you do your 500 words. Do it every day and you’ve got a book in eight or nine months.
- Vaclav Smil
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while mo… - Vaclav Smil
A useful analogy is to see traditional societies as relying on instantaneous (or minimally delayed) and constantly replenished solar income, while mo…
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking… - Vaclav Smil
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking…
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a … - Vaclav Smil
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a …
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimate… - Vaclav Smil
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimate…
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a gold… - Vaclav Smil
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a gold…
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to… - Vaclav Smil
Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to…
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