"It is pretty clear that they are ineffective……" — John Desmond Bernal
"It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future."
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John Desmond Bernal
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36 Quotes by John Desmond Bernal
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as…
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