“Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.” IfsThinkingNeedsScienceOrderFreedomModelsStructureDistanceIncludingIntimateChemicalsRaysAtomsShockedRestrictionDistance Apart Author:John Desmond Bernal
“A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.” NeedsMayDoeArtOpportunityCreationMaterialsResearchStrongerSexualityCommandImpulseAesthetic Author:John Desmond Bernal
“The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.” NeedsMeanArtPureTransformationRecognitionAbandonmentCompletion Author:John Desmond Bernal
