John Desmond Bernal

“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”

“The real social function of science is to show up the foolishness of force and the necessity of reason in the conduct of human affairs.”

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”

“Freedom is the recognition of necessity.”

“The world has not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”

“We must learn to think not only of armies but of peoples, not only of victory but of peace.”

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

“The central problem of the age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty.”

“Science is the great instrument of social change. All the world proves it and facts are stubborn things.”

“The demand for freedom is a demand for power.”