The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes. — John Desmond Bernal
We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death. — John Desmond Bernal
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of — John Desmond Bernal
We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. — John Desmond Bernal
The central industry of modern civilisation, tending, because of its control over — John Desmond Bernal
Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to — John Desmond Bernal
As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and — John Desmond Bernal
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful — John Desmond Bernal
It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present — John Desmond Bernal
The relevance of marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of — John Desmond Bernal
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence — John Desmond Bernal
As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical — John Desmond Bernal
Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve — John Desmond Bernal
A part of s*xuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. — John Desmond Bernal
Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled — John Desmond Bernal
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. — John Desmond Bernal