In Fact, We Will Have To Give Up Taking Things For Granted, Even The Apparently Simple Things. We Have To Learn To Understand Nature And Not Merely To Observe It And Endure What It Imposes On Us. Stupidity, From Being An Amiable Individual Defect, Has Become A Social Crime.

-John Desmond Bernal

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In Fact, We Will Have To Give

John Desmond Bernal

In Fact, We Will Have To Give Up Taking Things For Granted, Even The Apparently Simple Things. We Have To Learn To Understand Nature And Not Merely To Observe It And Endure What It Imposes On Us. Stupidity, From Being An Amiable Individual Defect, Has Become A Social Crime.

Topic

Giving Up

Science

Simple

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.

Writing

Years

Work Out