A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. - C.P. Snow
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 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…
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
I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in …
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose. - C.P. Snow
Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
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
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…
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
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.
If you pursue happiness you never find it. - C.P. Snow
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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
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…
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
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…
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