“As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.” Would BeFeltSpaceConditionsPlanetsMaterialsColdSceneAdvantageIndependentWarmAtmosphereEmptinessDenseContaining Author:John Desmond Bernal
“Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.” WorldWellsStatesMightWould BeAbleJudgingIndependentExperimentsCorporationsOutside WorldConsulting Author:John Desmond Bernal
“Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.” EndsWould BeLastsScienceMonthsResearchIllnessDevotionFinestFranklin Author:John Desmond Bernal