It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
If you pursue happiness you never find it. - C.P. Snow
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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