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, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.41, Cambridge University Press
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