As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.

Political activism
Arriving in Cambridge as a Catholic Bernal became a socialist as a result of a long night arguing with a friend. (1965). 0143.

John Desmond Bernal[pronunciation?]FRS (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was one of the United Kingdom's most well-known and controversial scientists.