“Knowledge isn’t restrained by the limits of Malthus. Information doesn’t need topsoil to grow in, only freedom. Given eager minds and experimentation, it feeds itself like a chain reaction.”

—  David Brin , book Earth

Part IX (p. 531)
Earth (1990)

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