"Science has produced such powerful weapons that in……" — John Boyd Orr
"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 destruction."
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John Boyd Orr
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28 Quotes by John Boyd Orr
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As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on…
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After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding…
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities…
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In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers…
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The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
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Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This…
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We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations…
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world…
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The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers,…
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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that…
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As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political…
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In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole…
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