But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving… — 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… — 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
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
Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world -… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience. — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated. — 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