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Quotes from The Social Function of Science — John Desmond Bernal

1901–1971 Ireland

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

The Social Function of Science (1939)

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)

[The goal of efficiency was] a system in which all relevant information would be available to each research worker in an amplitude proportional to its degree of relevance.

The Social Function of Science (1939)

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