Concept Papers with C.P. Snow
Post date: May 15, 2020 4:14:32 AM
RD-blog-number-4166 by Herb Zinser
Concept Papers (CP)
and CP Snow war news
The Two Cultures is the title of the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow.[1][2] Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures — namely the sciences and the humanities — and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems.
Snow's position can be summed up by an often-repeated part of the essay:
A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?[5]
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was split into the titular two cultures
was split into the titular two cultures
was split into the titular two cultures
on Sept 11, 2001
Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The response was
Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
The response was cold:
it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of:
Have you read a work of Shakespeare’s?
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