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“The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.”

Quote by John Desmond Bernal

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John Desmond Bernal

John Desmond Bernal was a prominent physicist, born on May 10, 1901, and died on September 15, 1971. He made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and solid-state physics. more

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