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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.

— C. P. Snow The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)

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The official world, the corridors of power.

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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

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Technology ... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

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