Charles Percy Snow Quotes
There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding … as we are ourselves.
Snow was one of the first people to call attention to problem of the intellectual gulf between most educated people and scientists. See {635971}. As politicians generally fall into the former group, they have had a particularly difficult dealing with scientific issues since the scientific revolution of the 20th century produced this cultural chasm.
C. P. Snow, 1905-1980, British Scientist, Government Scientific Administrator & Man of Letters, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, 1959
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Snow was one of the first people to call attention to problem of the intellectual gulf between most educated people and scientists. As politicians generally fall into the former group, they have had a particularly difficult time dealing with scientific issues since the scientific revolution of the 20th century produced this cultural chasm. See {635974} for one of his conclusions.
Snow was one of the first people to call attention to problem of the intellectual gulf between most educated people and scientists. As politicians generally fall into the former group, they have had a particularly difficult dealing with scientific issues since the scientific revolution of the 20th century produced this cultural chasm. See {635974} for one of his conclusions.
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".
