John Desmond Bernal Life Quotations

The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.