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Top 20 Vaclav Smil Quotes (2025 Update)

Vaclav Smil Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Vaclav Smil Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Vaclav Smil Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “China’s ruling party, as firmly in control of the government as ever, attracts foreign companies and enormous direct investment by guaranteeing the stability of a police state and by supplying a docile workforce that labors with minimum rights, commonly for extended hours under severe discipline, and is housed in substandard conditions.”

4. “China’s ruling party, as firmly in control of the government as ever, attracts foreign companies and enormous direct investment by guaranteeing the stability of a police state and by supplying a docile workforce that labors with minimum rights, commonly for extended hours under severe discipline, and is housed in substandard conditions.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the modern economy.”

5. “Without the low operating costs, high efficiency, high reliability, and great durability of diesel engines, it would have been impossible to reach the extent of globalization that now defines the modern economy.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Physics is indisputable, but economics rules.”

6. “Physics is indisputable, but economics rules.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Claims about the dematerialization of modern economies and about a postindustrial world in which manufacturing does not matter are costly misinterpretations of fundamental realities.”

7. “Claims about the dematerialization of modern economies and about a postindustrial world in which manufacturing does not matter are costly misinterpretations of fundamental realities.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Humans can tolerate considerable temporary dehydration providing that we rehydrate in a day or so. In fact, the best marathon runners drink only about 200 milliliters per hour during a race.”

8. “Humans can tolerate considerable temporary dehydration providing that we rehydrate in a day or so. In fact, the best marathon runners drink only about 200 milliliters per hour during a race.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Could such a shift be accomplished without eventually converting to a no-growth economy and reducing the current global population? For individuals, this would mean a no less revolutionary delinking of social status from material consumption.”

9. “Could such a shift be accomplished without eventually converting to a no-growth economy and reducing the current global population? For individuals, this would mean a no less revolutionary delinking of social status from material consumption.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Milk has been a key growth factor, be it in Japan or in the Netherlands. Before the Second World War, Dutch males were smaller than American men, but post-1950 US milk consumption declined while in the Netherlands it rose until the 1960s – and it remains higher than in the US. The lesson is obvious: the easiest way to improve a child’s chances of growing taller is for them to drink more milk. Is life expectancy finally topping out?”

10. “Milk has been a key growth factor, be it in Japan or in the Netherlands. Before the Second World War, Dutch males were smaller than American men, but post-1950 US milk consumption declined while in the Netherlands it rose until the 1960s – and it remains higher than in the US. The lesson is obvious: the easiest way to improve a child’s chances of growing taller is for them to drink more milk. Is life expectancy finally topping out?”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Despite these advances, internal combustion engines remain rather inefficient prime movers and the overall process of converting the chemical energy of gasoline to the kinetic energy of a moving passenger car is extraordinarily wasteful.”

11. “Despite these advances, internal combustion engines remain rather inefficient prime movers and the overall process of converting the chemical energy of gasoline to the kinetic energy of a moving passenger car is extraordinarily wasteful.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “For every dollar invested in vaccination, $16 is expected to be saved in healthcare costs and the lost wages and lost productivity caused by illness and death.”

12. “For every dollar invested in vaccination, $16 is expected to be saved in healthcare costs and the lost wages and lost productivity caused by illness and death.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “In short, for decades it will be impossible to adequately feed the planet without using fossil fuels as sources of energy and raw materials.”

13. “In short, for decades it will be impossible to adequately feed the planet without using fossil fuels as sources of energy and raw materials.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “In two centuries, the human labor to produce a kilogram of American wheat was reduced from 10 minutes to less than two seconds.”

14. “In two centuries, the human labor to produce a kilogram of American wheat was reduced from 10 minutes to less than two seconds.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.”

15. “Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”

16. “Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Life’s great dichotomy is between autotrophs, organisms that can nourish themselves, and heterotrophs, or life forms that must feed on other organisms.”

17. “Life’s great dichotomy is between autotrophs, organisms that can nourish themselves, and heterotrophs, or life forms that must feed on other organisms.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Later studies estimated that at least 6.4 Mt of plastic litter enters the oceans every year; that some 8 million pieces are discarded every day; that the floating plastic debris averages more than 13 000 pieces per km2 of ocean surface; and that some 60% of all marine litter stems from shoreline activities.”

18. “Later studies estimated that at least 6.4 Mt of plastic litter enters the oceans every year; that some 8 million pieces are discarded every day; that the floating plastic debris averages more than 13 000 pieces per km2 of ocean surface; and that some 60% of all marine litter stems from shoreline activities.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Despite many differences in agronomic practices and in cultivated crops, all traditional agricultures shared the same energetic foundation. They were powered by the photosynthetic conversion of solar radiation, producing food for people, feed for animals, recycled wastes for the replenishment of soil fertility, and fuels for smelting the metals needed to make simple farm tools. Consequently, traditional farming was, in principle, fully renewable.”

19. “Despite many differences in agronomic practices and in cultivated crops, all traditional agricultures shared the same energetic foundation. They were powered by the photosynthetic conversion of solar radiation, producing food for people, feed for animals, recycled wastes for the replenishment of soil fertility, and fuels for smelting the metals needed to make simple farm tools. Consequently, traditional farming was, in principle, fully renewable.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “Shakespeare’s plays and poems in their entirety amount to 5 megabytes, the equivalent of just a single high-resolution photograph, or of 30 seconds of high-fidelity sound, or of 8 seconds of streamed high-definition video.”

20. “Shakespeare’s plays and poems in their entirety amount to 5 megabytes, the equivalent of just a single high-resolution photograph, or of 30 seconds of high-fidelity sound, or of 8 seconds of streamed high-definition video.”

— Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil Quote: “The SI specifies seven fundamental measures: length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.”

21. “The SI specifies seven fundamental measures: length, mass, time, electric current, temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.”

— Vaclav Smil

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