Quotes by John Boyd Orr

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

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

#John Boyd Orr

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

#John Boyd Orr

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years...

#John Boyd Orr

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

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

#John Boyd Orr

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

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

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

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

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

#John Boyd Orr

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

#John Boyd Orr