"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.“
-John Desmond Bernal
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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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"It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof."
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"Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
-Laurette Taylor
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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