List of John Boyd Orr Quotes

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.

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.

Our Civilization Has Evolved Through The Continuous Adjustment Of Society To The Stimulus Of New Knowledge.

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.

Nearly Every Country In The World Is Now Becoming Industrialized As Rapidly As It Can.

The Real Evil Of The Russian Communist State Is Not Communism. It Is The Secret Police And The Concentration Camp.

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.

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.

The History Of Our Civilization Has Been One Of Intermittent War.

Some Think The Worst Horrors Of War Might Be Avoided By An International Agreement Not To Use Atomic Bombs. This Is A Vain Hope.

Empires Won By Conquest Have Always Fallen Either By Revolt Within Or By Defeat By A Rival.

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.