However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
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. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
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. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
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. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction. John Boyd Orr Read Quote
