Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.

Quote by John Desmond Bernal

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Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images,...

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images,...

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest...

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest...

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at...

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at...

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the...

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the...

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment...

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment...

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge...

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge...

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real...

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real...

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements...

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements...

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position...

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position...

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the...

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the...

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for...

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for...

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the...

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the...

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence...

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence...

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the...

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the...

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead...

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead...

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a...

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a...

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's...

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's...

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are...

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are...

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid...

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid...