C.P. Snow

What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

— C.P. Snow

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.

— C.P. Snow

“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

“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

“For at this stage in our youth we can hold two kinds of anticipation of love, which seem contradictory and yet coexist…

— C.P. Snow

“He was a big, rather clumsy man, with a substantial bay window that started in the middle of the chest. I should…

— C.P. Snow

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the…

— C.P. Snow

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

“Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.”

— C.P. Snow

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

— C.P. Snow

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

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