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John Desmond Bernal has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage…
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to…
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their…
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Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.
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The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
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The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance…
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Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical…
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We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the…
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity…
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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the…
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It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…
— Jacques Monod
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The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through…
— Lord Kelvin
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If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a…
— Unknown Author
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Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church…
— Pope Leo XIII
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What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.
— Vaclav Klaus
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Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from…
— Unknown Author
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,…
— Victor Hugo
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I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of…
— Edward Everett
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What I am interested in is the present time
— Sophie Marceau
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