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…

— C.P. Snow

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

— C.P. Snow

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

— 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…

— 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…

— C.P. Snow

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

— C.P. Snow

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— C.P. Snow

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

— 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…

— C.P. Snow

It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised…

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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is…

— C.P. Snow

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— C.P. Snow

I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had…

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“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

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska -…

— C.P. Snow

Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well -…

— C.P. Snow