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

I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in …

- C.P. Snow

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

- 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

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

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

- 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

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