In this volume the different facets of J.D. Bernal's life and work are recounted and assessed. He was a crystallographer, persistent writer on the social implications of science, an early foe of pseudo-scientific racism, a Marxist thinker and a campaigner for peace and civil rights.
Part 1: What Science Does: Introductory, Historical, The Existing Organization of Scientific Research in Britain, Science in Education, The Efficiency of Scientific Research, The Application of Science, Science and War and International Science.
The first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the first flint hand ax to the construction of the hydrogen bomb.
The most brilliant attempt at scientific prediction ever made. -Arthur C. Clarke
