C.P. Snow Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
October 15, 1905 – July, 1, 1980.

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980) was a novelist and English physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government. He is best known for his series of novels known collectively as Strangers and Brothers, and for The Two Cultures, a 1959 lecture in which he laments the gulf between scientists and "literary intellectuals".

Also known as Physicist, Chemist

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

C.P. Snow
- Father
- Science
- Husband
Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

C.P. Snow
- Two
- Snow
- Groups

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.

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- Time
- Science
- Eyes
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

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- World
- Control
- Natural