John Desmond Bernal Quotes
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
The greater the man, the more he is soaked in the atmosphere of his time; only thus can he get a wide enough grasp of it to be able to change substantially the pattern of knowledge and action.
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.
We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.
If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?