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Top 20 C.P. Snow Quotes (2024 Update)

C.P. Snow Quote: “When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “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.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “If you pursue happiness you never find it.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the 19th century.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “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 Quote: “What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska – sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “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 Quote: “What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “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 Quote: “A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “Groups of men, even small groups, act strangely differently from individuals. They have less humour and simpler humour, are more easy to frighten, more difficult to charm, distrust the mysterious more, and enjoy firm, flat, competent expositions which a man by himself would find inexcusably dull. Perhaps.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “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 Quote: “I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn’t want it, one doesn’t get it.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.”
C.P. Snow Quote: “There is no getting away from it. It is technically possible to carry out the scientific revolution in India, Africa, South-east Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, within fifty years. There is no excuse for western man not to know this. And not to know that this is the one way out through the three menaces which stand in our way – H-bomb war, over-population, the gap between the rich and the poor. This is one of the situations where the worst crime is innocence.”
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