"Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which……" — John Desmond Bernal
"Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them."
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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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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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Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too…
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