Giving Quote by John Desmond Bernal

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“We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.”

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Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to…

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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 future will,…

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

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

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The problem [of specialization] is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is…

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

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The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

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

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[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…

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