John Desmond Bernal Quotes

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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• As the world undergoes a major transformation, it's the time of significant opportunity and also threat.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

• To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • School
  • Student
  • Chemistry

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Question
  • Goals

• God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • God
  • Like
  • Sun

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Bad
  • Police
  • Nobody

• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • World
  • Live
  • Sobriety

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Father
  • Think
  • Son

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Football
  • Young
  • Normal

• We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Women
  • Rock
  • Daily

• Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Me
  • Policy
  • Buildings

• Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Running

• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Feeling
  • Wisdom
  • Aphorisms

• The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

  

  Jose Mourinho
  • People
  • Society
  • Football

• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Intuition
  • Conclusion
  • Deduction

• 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
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Animal