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Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.

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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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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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No one is fit to be trusted with power.... No one.... Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. If he does not know it, he is not fit to govern others. And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate.

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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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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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