Groups Quote by 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 social origin,…

— C.P. Snow

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having…

— Nicholas Mosley

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is…

— Anthony Standen

“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.”

— Alastair Bonnett

“For the man on the street, science and math sound too and soulless. It is hard to appreciate their significance Most of us are…

— Sharad Nalawade

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

— W. G. Sebald

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the…

— Kingsley Amis

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we…

— Aldous Huxley

Everyone was at Martin Freeman’s house, and Martin was there and his wife was sat at his feet and Amanda [Abbington, Freeman’s wife] was…

— Louise Brealey

We are not utopians, we do not “dream” of dispensing at once with all administration, with all subordination. These anarchist dreams, based upon incomprehension…

— Anonymous

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over…

— Adrienne Rich

[A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

— Peter Medawar