Frases de Charles Percy Snow

Charles Percy Snow, Kt., CBE , también conocido como C. P. Snow, fue un físico y novelista inglés que además prestó servicios en el gobierno del Reino Unido.[1] Es autor de una serie de novelas conocidas en conjunto como Strangers and Brothers y por Las dos culturas, una obra de 1959 en la que lamenta la brecha entre científicos e «intelectuales literatos».[2] Wikipedia

✵ 15. octubre 1905 – 1. julio 1980

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Charles Percy Snow: Frases en inglés

“There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.”

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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Fuente: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 61
Contexto: 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.

“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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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Fuente: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 10

“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 about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”

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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Fuente: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), Pp. 15-16

“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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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Fuente: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 4

“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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C. P. Snow

Public Affairs (London: Macmillan, 1971) p. 195

“There are no secrets in science.”

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C. P. Snow

The Physicists (1981), published posthumously.

“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.”

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C. P. Snow

Francis King Yesterday Came Suddenly (London: Constable, 1993) p. 83.

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