Incommensurables Cannot Be Compared.

Every Measured Thing Is Part Of A Web Of Variables More Richly Interconnected Than We Know.

You Can Never Do Merely One Thing. The Law Applies To Any Action That Changes Something In A Complex System. The Point Is That An Action Taken To Alleviate A Problem Will Trigger Several Effects, Some Of Which May Offset Or Even Negate The One Intended.

Of Course, A Positive Growth Rate Might Be Taken As Evidence That A Population Is Below Its Optimum.

We Can't Cure A Shortage By Increasing The Supply.

But It Is No Good Using The Tongs Of Reason To Pull The Fundamentalists' Chestnuts Out Of The Fire Of Contradiction. Their Real Troubles Lie Elsewhere.