"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
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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.“
-John Boyd Orr
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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."
-John Boyd Orr
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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."
-John Boyd Orr
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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."
-John Boyd Orr
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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."
-John Boyd Orr
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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."
-John Boyd Orr
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"Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind."
-Rockwell Kent
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"It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other."
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"Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication."
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"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."
-Richard Rosen
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"To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality."
-Cliff Shaw
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