"...Tainter doesn't show good judgement in his choice of information about China, nor does he display a very sound his…"

"“As resources committed to benefits decline,” Tainter wrote in 1988, “resources committed to control must increase.”"

"In talking about sustainability I like to use a metaphor of sport, of a game. When you are in a sustainability exerci…"

"Тhey [Romans] were forced to debase the currency. Debasing the currency for them was the same as borrowing is for us.…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"

"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"

"The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language."

"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a v…"

"The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, cons…"