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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 The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)

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The official world, the corridors of power.

Homecomings (1956)

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.

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)

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.

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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.

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