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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/for-the-first-time-i-saw-a-medley-of-haphazard-facts-fall-into-line/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

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## More by C.P. Snow

> [“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/a-good-many-times-i-have-been-present-at-gatherings-of-people-who-by/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/well-we-have-seen-a-wonder-we-ought-to-count-our-blessings/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [If you pursue happiness you never find it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/if-you-pursue-happiness-you-never-find-it/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/the-most-dreadful-thing-of-all-is-that-many-millions-of-people-in-the/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/the-only-weapon-we-have-to-oppose-the-bad-effects-of-technology-is/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/davy-was-the-type-of-all-the-jumped-up-second-raters-of-all-time/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/nine-english-traditions-out-of-ten-date-from-the-latter-half-of-the/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/this-ability-to-incorporate-the-past-gives-the-sharpest-diagnostic/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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. Between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/two-polar-groups-at-one-pole-we-have-the-literary-intellectuals-at/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/when-you-think-of-the-long-and-gloomy-history-of-man-you-will-find/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/by-the-year-2070-we-cannot-say-or-it-would-be-imbecile-to-do-so-that/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/the-main-issue-of-the-scientific-revolution-is-that-the-people-in-the/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [“What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Massachusetts Indians, that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/what-will-people-of-the-future-think-of-us-will-they-say-as-roger/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/i-should-never-have-made-a-good-scientist-but-i-should-have-made-a/)

[C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-p-snow/)

> [“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-p-snow/for-the-first-time-i-saw-a-medley-of-haphazard-facts-fall-into-line/)

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