“One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.” ThinkingStillsPhilosophyWrittenSubjectsAmountRelationMethodEnormousStatementsConfusionClarityContradictoryMarxist Author:John Desmond Bernal
“In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English is their almost complete lack of systematic thinking. Science to them consists of a number of successful raids into the unknown.” ThinkingCountryScienceFeltNumbersSuccessfulAccountsEnglandOther CountriesDefectsSystematic Author:John Desmond Bernal
“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
“The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.” ThinkingSelfFormLife IsProcessKnownRecordsBasesObservationConsistentConstructsFossilsStraightforwardPlausibleFactualOrigin Of Life Book:The origin of life Source: The origin of life
