Characteristics Quote by John Desmond Bernal

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

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

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

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

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

— John Desmond Bernal

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

— John Desmond Bernal

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

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

— John Desmond Bernal

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

— John Desmond Bernal

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

— John Desmond Bernal

[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

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