John Boyd Orr

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

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.

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.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.