Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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…
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
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. B…
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.
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.
If you pursue happiness you never find it. - C.P. Snow
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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…
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…
What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist. - C.P. Snow
What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.
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