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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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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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The future of chemistry rests and must rest, with physics.

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The great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had.

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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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C. P. Snow

C. P. Snow

Born: October 15, 1905
Died: July 1, 1980 (aged 74)
Bio: Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow was an English physical chemist and novelist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.
Known for:
  1. The Two Cultures (1959)
  2. Time of Hope (1949)
  3. The New Men (1954)
  4. Corridors of Power (1964)
  5. The Light and the Dark (1947)
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