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J.D. Bernal

John Desmond Bernal FRS was one of the United Kingdom's most well-known and controversial scientists. Bernal is considered a pioneer in X-ray crystallography in molecular biology. He published extensively on the history of science. In addition, Bernal wrote popular books on science and society, and he was also a communist activist.


“We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action.”
J.D. Bernal
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“There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.”
J.D. Bernal
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