John Boyd Orr

John Boyd Orr was a Scottish teacher,doctor,biologist and politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

He was the co-founder and the first President (1960–1971) of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS).

Date of birth:
23rd September, 1880
Date of death:
25th June, 1971
"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
― John Boyd Orr
Topic(s): Society
"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
Topic(s): Science
"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
Topic(s): Science
"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
Topic(s): Science
"The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion."
― John Boyd Orr
Topic(s): Religion
"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."
― John Boyd Orr
Topic(s): Peace
"There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty."
― John Boyd Orr
Topic(s): Change
"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."
― John Boyd Orr
Topic(s): Change
"Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
― John Boyd Orr
Topic(s): Communication

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