The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will,… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science? — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share
