Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd OrrNearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.
John Boyd OrrIn 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.
John Boyd OrrIt 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.
John Boyd Orr