John Boyd Orr Quotes

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• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only…
• After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output…
• There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that…
• In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature…
• The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
• Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
• We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
• Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
• The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been…
• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up…
• As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must…
• In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire,…
• Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied…
• Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in…
• Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
• If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to…
• If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.
• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
• When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth…
• Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

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