Quotes by John Boyd Orr

John Boyd Orr

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

Agriculture

War

World

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.

Airplane

Government

Political

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.

Airplane

United States

War

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

Defeat

Empires

Rivals

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

People

Politics

Sandwiches

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

Civilization

Thinking

Views

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.

Government

Gunpowder

Warfare

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.

Fifty

Lasts

Years

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

Hatred

Mad

War

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.

Animal

Past

Records

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Creating

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Demand

Empires

Evil

Fabric

Fifty

Government

Gunpowder

Hatred

Intermittent

Lasts

Long

Lust

Mad

Past

People

Police

Political

Politics

Powerful

Real

Records

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Revolution

Rivals

Sandwiches

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Quotes by John Boyd Orr

John Boyd Orr

After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.

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.

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.

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

If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

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.

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.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

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