Affection Quote 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…

— 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 before our…

— 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…

— 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 or not.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— C.P. Snow