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.

Quote by John Boyd Orr

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During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced,...

During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced,...

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would...

Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would...

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving...

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving...

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in...

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in...

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with...

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with...

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the...

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the...

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not...

Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not...

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than...

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than...

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed...

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed...

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by...

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by...

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It...

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It...

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of...

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of...

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small...

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small...

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments...

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments...

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or...

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or...

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has...

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has...

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the...

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the...

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad....

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad....

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every...

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every...