12 John Desmond Bernal Quotes for You to Enjoy

John Desmond Bernal

Irish Scientist

Born: May 10, 1901

Died: Sep 15, 1971

Art Become Future Science Will World

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The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. John Desmond Bernal

Army Problem Become Action Rapid Temporary Advance Until Essentially Order After Again Communications Working Disorganized

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. John Desmond Bernal

Culture World Country Every Imitated Rapidly Eastern Aristocracy Clearly Most Western Western Culture Being Successfully Moment Present

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. John Desmond Bernal

Science Important Complete Relevance Critically Detachment Marxism Part Development Economy Important Part Social Social Development Shows Imagined Position

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. John Desmond Bernal

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 their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. John Desmond Bernal

Time Peace Humanity Sex Side Sight Hunger Plenty Dream Longer Primitive Looks Within Permanent Permanent Peace Still Arrival Were Existence Dominate Human Human Existence Awaits Satisfaction Utopian Present Present Time

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. John Desmond Bernal

Future Will Thought Past We Cannot Pretty Clear Course Ineffective Sure Always Been Stopping In The Past Cannot Present

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. John Desmond Bernal

Giving Satisfied Too License Failed Primitive Wishes Because Greatest Infantile Themselves Full Naturalism Even Play Inconsistent

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. John Desmond Bernal

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. John Desmond Bernal

Judge World Become Corporations States Independent Would Would-Be Able About Consulting Outside Outside World Almost Well Without Scientific Undertake Were Experiments Which Might Less Largest

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 body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. John Desmond Bernal

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 something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved. John Desmond Bernal

Simple Mind Sex Complex Ours Must Would Something Almost Perhaps Involved Greater Because Than Differ Psychology Much Even

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