John Boyd Orr

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

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

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and…

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the…

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

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new…

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

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

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

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

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

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