The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

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

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

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.

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.