"I was searching for something a little more……" — Carrie P Snow
"I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right."
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Carrie P Snow
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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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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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I was moving among two groups... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological…
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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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More Cultural Quotes
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.
— Michelle Bachelet
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
— Bob Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American…
— Saul Bellow
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have…
— Theodore Bikel
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We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.
— Julie Bishop
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The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed…
— Luke Bryan
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The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result…
— Julie Burchill
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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character…
— Nicolas Cage
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