The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.
John Desmond BernalWe will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.
John Desmond BernalSo many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.
John Desmond BernalThe beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.
John Desmond Bernal