Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science? — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
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 Image
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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