The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically …

- John Desmond Bernal

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 …

- John Desmond Bernal

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

- John Desmond Bernal

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

- John Desmond Bernal

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully i…

- John Desmond Bernal

So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of spec…

- John Desmond Bernal

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

- John Desmond Bernal

The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarter…

- John Desmond Bernal

In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely t…

- John Desmond Bernal