The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it. C.P. Snow More Quotes by C.P. Snow More Quotes From C.P. Snow Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it. C.P. Snow publicity want fame The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets. C.P. Snow eye country people 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 purpose two culture It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad. C.P. Snow strong wise years Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. C.P. Snow nine half history Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings. C.P. Snow apollo blessing wonder 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 issues country people 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 eye science fall I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one. C.P. Snow adequate should-have science 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 science moving 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 ignorant understanding mean 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 two moving
