"I was moving among two groups... who had……" — Carrie P Snow
"I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that... one might have crossed the ocean."
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28 Quotes by Carrie P Snow
Carrie P Snow has 28 quotes on this site.
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If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative,…
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I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map:…
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those…
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Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known…
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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.
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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education…
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The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We…
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I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly…
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I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
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