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Ratios Quotes

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

William Blake, Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi (1998). “The Early Illuminated Books”, p.26, Princeton University Press

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.47, Penguin UK