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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
Life
Space
Organic
Cold
Increasingly
Independent
Would
Would-Be
Atmosphere
More
Scene
Both
Advantage
Containing
Emptiness
Felt
Material
Conditions
Dense
Than
Warm
Planets
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 characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
John Desmond Bernal
Science
Long
Characteristic
Possible
Proof
Seized
Advance
Scientist
Any
Essence
Often
Explanations
Full
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
Fashion
Creative
Peace
Events
Political
Confusion
Thought
Respectively
Prolonged
Must
Also
Obvious
Hinder
Affect
Effective
Undoubtedly
Very
Whether
Social
Certain
Help
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
Animal
Mind
Before
Imagination
Our
Intricate
Evolved
Must
Exceed
Point
Point Of View
Observing
Always
Human
Human Body
Them
Body
View
Human Mind
Company
Connections
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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