Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

- C.P. Snow

I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is…

- C.P. Snow

Zeroth law: You must play the game First law: You can't win Second law: You can't break even Third law: You can't quit the game.

- C.P. Snow

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. B…

- C.P. Snow

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than oth…

- C.P. Snow

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

- C.P. Snow

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of…

- C.P. Snow

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

- C.P. Snow

This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present prac…

- C.P. Snow