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John Desmond Bernal on Science

1901–1971 Ireland

← All quotes by John Desmond Bernal

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The progress in science has been anything but uniform in time and place.

Science in History (1954)

Hogben's Science for the Citizen would be an admirable text-book for such teaching.

The Social Function of Science (1939)

It would be as one-sided to assess the effects of science on society as of society on science.

Science in History (1954)

The problem of the re-organization of science will not be solved by administrative or financial changes. It will also be necessary to reorganise in a most comprehensive way the whole apparatus of scientific communication.

The Social Function of Science (1939)

If science were communism, was it also not possible that communism could itself become a science?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Desmond Bernal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.