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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 The world, the flesh & the devil (1969)

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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.

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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)

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

Science in History (1954)

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)

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