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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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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea…
— George Eliot
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on…
— Emily Bronte
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment…
— George Eliot
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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…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that…
— William Jennings Bryan
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And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still…
— Max Ehrmann
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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like…
— Charles Dickens
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I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also…
— Marcus Brigstocke
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...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter…
— Frederick Douglass
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