Quotes by : John Boyd Orr

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world....