"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
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"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.“
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"Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace."
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"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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