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• Como científica, la Srta. [Rosalind] Franklin se distinguió por su extrema claridad y perfección en todo lo que emprendía. Sus fotografías se encuentran entre las más bellas que se han tomado jamás con rayos X de cualquier sustancia.

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  Hermoso, Tomado, Perfección

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• La cuestión del origen de la vida es esencialmente especulativa. Tenemos que construir, mediante el pensamiento directo y basándonos en muy pocas observaciones objetivas, una imagen plausible y coherente de un proceso que debió ocurrir antes de que pudiera existir cualquiera de las formas que conocemos en el registro fósil.

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  Thinking, Origin Of Life, Self

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

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  Giving Up, Simple, Taking Things For Granted

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• Pauling was shocked by the freedom with which the X-ray crystallographers of the time, including particularly Astbury, played with the intimate chemical structure of their models. They seemed to think that if the atoms were arranged in the right order and about the right distance apart, that was all that mattered, that no further restrictions need to be put on them.

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  Freedom, Distance, Science

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• La región de los misteriosos se está reduciendo rápidamente.

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  Ciencia, Encogimiento, Misterioso

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• Los artículos publicados pueden omitir pasos importantes y la memoria de los hombres de ciencia, incluso la de los más grandes, es tristemente falible.

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  Memories, Science, Men

  John Desmond Bernal (1953). “Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century”, p.199, Taylor & Francis

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• La psicología de una mente compleja debe diferir casi tanto de la de una mente simple y mecanizada como su psicología lo haría de la nuestra; porque algo que debe subyacer y quizás ser incluso mayor que el sexo está implicado.

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  Sexo, Simple, Psicología

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

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  Play, Giving, Wish

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• Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she knew would be fatal, she continued to work right up to the end.

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  Science, Would Be, Research

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• 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.

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  Art, Mean, Needs

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• [In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either millwrights like Bramah, mechanics like Murdoch and George Stephenson, or smiths like Newcomen and Maudslay.

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  Simple, Self, Ambitious

  "Science in History". Book by John Desmond Bernal, Volume 2, 1954.

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• In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were.

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  Writing, Years, Work Out

  "A History of Classical Physics: From Antiquity to the Quantum". Book by John Desmond Bernal, p. 116, 1997.

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• El problema [de la especialización] es esencialmente el de las comunicaciones con un ejército en acción. Tras un avance rápido, las comunicaciones se desorganizan y se produce una interrupción temporal hasta que vuelven a funcionar correctamente.

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  Communication, Army, Order

  "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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• A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

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  Art, Opportunity, Stronger

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