Skip to content

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

— John Desmond Bernal Science in History (1954)

Another quote →

Topics

Science

More quotes by John Desmond Bernal

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

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)

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

Marx and Science (1959)

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

The world, the flesh & the devil (1969)

All John Desmond Bernal quotes →

You may also like

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: John Desmond Bernal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.