Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources no…

- Julian Simon

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven …

- Julian Simon

This is my long-run forecast in brief: The material conditions of life will continue to get better for most people, in most countries, most of the ti…

- Julian Simon

The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.

- Julian Simon

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

- Julian Simon

The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as muc…

- Julian Simon

Our supplies of natural resources are not finite in any economic sense. Nor does past experience give reason to expect natural resources to become mo…

- Julian Simon

Human beings create more than they destroy.

- Julian Simon

It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of populatio…

- Julian Simon