Charles Percy Snow Quotes


There are no secrets in science.


Context

This was published just after his death.


Citations

C. P. Snow, 1905-1980, British Scientist, Government Scientific Administrator & Man of Letters The Physicists, 1981

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Charles Percy Snow
Charles Percy Snow
  • Born: October 15, 1905
  • Died: July 1, 1980
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Chemist, Novelist

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE was an English novelist and 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".