“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes—as though… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. — C.P. Snow Copy Share
This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not.… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
“What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Massachusetts Indians, that we… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one. — C.P. Snow Copy Share
“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of… — C.P. Snow Copy Share
