Vaclav Smil Quotes

• 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 grow, and civilizations to evolve.

  Vaclav Smil

  Stars, Order, Civilization

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• ...por muy complejas o prósperas que sean, las sociedades humanas no son más que subsistemas de la biosfera, la delgada capa de vida de la Tierra, que en última instancia está dirigida por bacterias, hongos y plantas verdes.

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  Running, Nature, Green Plants

  Vaclav Smil (2005). “Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties”, p.350, MIT Press

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• 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.

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  Morning, Book, Eight

  "This Is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. November 25, 2013.

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• 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 your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.

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  Libro, Lectura, Pasado

  "Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read". Interview with Ritchie King, qz.com. August 08, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Sky, Horizon, Looks

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• 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 golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they’re played out.

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  Boys, Iphone, Color

  "This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. November 25, 2013.

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• Una analogía útil es considerar que las sociedades tradicionales dependen de unos ingresos solares instantáneos (o con un retraso mínimo) y en constante reposición, mientras que la civilización moderna está retirando el capital solar acumulado a un ritmo que lo agotará en una fracción ínfima del tiempo que se necesitó para crearlo.

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  Civilization, Income, Analogies

  Vaclav Smil (2012). “Energy: A Beginner's Guide”, p.80, Oneworld Publications

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