Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

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.