List of John Boyd Orr Quotes

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John Boyd Orr
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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 over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.
Years Lasts Fifty
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, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
Government Gunpowder Warfare
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
Civilization Stimulus Adjustment
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 alternative to war is the united states of the world.
War Airplane United States
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
Country World Becoming
The real evil of the russian communist state is not communism. it is the secret police and the concentration camp.
Real Evil Police
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... the results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.
Animal Past Records
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 adjust their foreign policies.
Airplane Government Political
The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.
War Civilization Intermittent
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. this is a vain hope.
War Thinking Agreement
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Rivals Empires Defeat
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 possible to get the approval of their state religion.
Appreciate Arms Territory
  • Born: September 23, 1880
  • Died: June 25, 1971
  • Occupation: Doctor
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