Eugene Garfield on JD Bernal and Bernal’s book Social Function of Science, which was an inspiration for the field of Scientometrics (the study of “the science of science” as Bernal put it in The Social Function of Science .) From Web of Stories.
J. D. Bernal
A New World
Cutaway view of Bernal Sphere. Art work: Rick Guidice, courtesy of NASA Ames Research Center
Exterior view of Bernal Sphere. Art work: Rick Guidice courtesy NASA Ames Research Center
Agricultural modules in cutaway view (multiple toroids). Art work: Rick Guidice, courtesy NASA Ames Research Center.
Interior of Bernal Sphere including human powered flight. Art work: Rick Guidice courtesy NASA Ames Research Center
The Fate of Science
It is easy for a scientist, in what is still a bourgeois democracy, to look with superior horror at what is happening to science under Fascism. But the fate of science in his own country is at the moment still hanging in the balance, and it depends on factors quite outside the scope of science itself. Unless the scientist is aware of these factors and knows how to use his weigh this position is simply that of the sheep awaiting his turn with the butcher.
J. D. Bernal (1939) The Social Function of Science.
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