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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 20 quotes by John Desmond Bernal John Desmond Bernal FRS (/bərˈnɑːl/; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was one of the United Kingdom's best-known and most controversial scientists. Known as "Sage" to friends, Bernal is considered a pioneer in X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. Read full biography of John Desmond Bernal → 1 2 Ctrl → Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of... → 0 Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature... → 0 Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a... → 0 The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and... → 0 The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because... → 0 The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion... → 0 The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a... → 0 There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them. 0 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... → 0 Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with... → 0 It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any... → 0 Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the... → 0 Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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