Quotes by C.P. Snow

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 and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?

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A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

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Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

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By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

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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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I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

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I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

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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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If you pursue happiness you never find it.

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It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn’t wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.

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Quotes by C.P. Snow

C.P. Snow

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

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.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn’t wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad.

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