“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.Quote by John Boyd OrrTopics: Quotes about John Boyd OrrShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than...#John Boyd Orr
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would...#John Boyd Orr
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new...#John Boyd Orr
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed...#John Boyd Orr
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the...#John Boyd Orr
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the...#John Boyd Orr
