By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton. — 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 think of doing so. Rutherford was one of the greatest experimental physicists, but no nuclear scientist today would… — 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
![“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 are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this…” quote by C.P. Snow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/df6/c-p-snow-17515_country_the-main-issue-of-the-scientific-revolut_882153.jpg)