"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
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― John Boyd Orr
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- "Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago."
- "Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
- "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."
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