John Desmond Bernal - Men Quotes

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Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

John Desmond Bernal

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

John Desmond Bernal

In science men have learned consciously to subordinate themselves to a common purpose without losing the individuality of their achievements. Each one knows that his work depends on that of his predecessors and colleagues, and that it can only reach its fruition through the work of his successors. In science men collaborate not because they are forced to by superior authority or because they blindly follow some chosen leader, but because they realize that only in this willing collaboration can each man find his goal.

John Desmond Bernal