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John Boyd Orr was a renowned Scottish doctor and nutritionist. He is known for his contributions to the field of nutrition, particularly in the study of proteins and vitamins. Dr. Orr's work had a profound impact on the development of global nutrition.

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“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.”

War Would Be Powerful Weapons Destruction Overwhelmed Great Power Powerful Weapons

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

World Country Becoming

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“If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.”

Ifs Thinking Law Growth Views Civilization Wander Evolve Tribes

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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.”

Enough Social Revolution Fabric Social Change Adjustment Unrest Social Unrest

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“Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.”

Has Beens War Glory Defeat Revenge Dues Lust Former Rulers Humiliation Wipe Exacting Revenge

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“Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.”

Defeat Fallen Empires Conquest Rivals Revolt

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“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.”

Wealth Share Century Revolution Demand Creating Fairs Increase Workers Strikes Rapids Riot Nineteenth Century Industrial Revolution Fair Share Conceded

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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.”

Years Country Whole Communication Hundred Europe Years Ago Rounds Globes Transport European Countries

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

Civilization Stimulus Adjustment New Knowledge

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“The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.”

Real States Evil Secret Police Communism Concentration Communist Camps Concentration Camp Secret Police

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“As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.”

World Made War States Nations United United States Alternatives Dependent Airplane Aeroplanes Wireless

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“After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to get the output of industry and agriculture dispersed and consumed.”

World Firsts War Problem Economic Industry Findings Productions War Of The Worlds Agriculture Consumed Output First World War Economic Problems

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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.”

World Believe Long Political Economic Population Available Plenty Proportion Economic Systems

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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.”

Years Lasts Given Force Greater Mankind Fifty Forces Of Nature Greater Power Previous Years

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

Has Beens War Civilization Intermittent

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“Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.”

Thinking War Use Might Worst Horror International Vain Bombs Agreement Avoided Atomic Bomb Horror Of War

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“We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.”

World Nations Absolutes Sovereignty National Sovereignty

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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.”

World Age Stage Civilization Unity Empires Transition New Age

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“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.”

Has Beens States Force Policy Arms Appreciate Increase Empires Territory Approval Great Power

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“It 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.”

Firsts Wells May Said War Wish Destruction Hatred Madness Mad Propaganda Neurosis Prelude

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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.”

Shows Government Political Environment Policy International Foreign Policy Airplane Aeroplanes Wireless Political Environment

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“In 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.”

World Whole Use Government Earth Nations British Improvement Whole World Empires Controlled Quarters Warfare British Empire Gunpowder

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“Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied directly to human beings who vary widely in their hereditary make-up, in their environment, and in their past health record.”

Humans Past Human Beings Animal Results Records Environment Conditions Research Cruelty Vary Experimentation Animal Cruelty Scientific Research Hereditary

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“If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.”

People Ifs Politics Sandwiches

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About the Author

Born: September 23, 1880
Died: June 25, 1971
Known for: Doctor
Quotes: 24

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