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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.

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.

C.P. Snow
Two, Culture, Purpose
C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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.

C.P. Snow
Mean, Understanding, Ignorant
C.P. SNOW (1963). “THE TWO CULTURES: AND A SECOND LOOK”

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

C.P. Snow
Blessing, Apollo, Wonder

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

C.P. Snow
Science, Should Have, Adequate

I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.

C.P. Snow
Ocean, Moving, Science

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.

C.P. Snow
Country, Issues, People
C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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.

C.P. Snow
Fall, Eye, Science
C.P. Snow (2010). “The Search”, p.30, House of Stratus

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.

C.P. Snow
Ocean, Moving, Two

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