“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one. — 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… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. — 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… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“The division of our culture is making us more obtuse than we need be: we can repair communications to some extent: but,… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well -… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner, published in the Annalen der Physik in… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No scientist or student of science, need ever read an original work of the past. As a general rule, he does not… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image