C.P. Snow Quotes
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The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
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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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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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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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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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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
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Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.
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Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
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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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Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
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What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.
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This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.
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If you pursue happiness you never find it.
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Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.
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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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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 in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.
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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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Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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Zeroth law: You must play the game
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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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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What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.