C.P. Snow Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

2. 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.

3. Of books, though, very little. And of the bookswhich to most literary persons are bread and butter, novels, history, poetry, plays, almost nothing atall. It isn’t that they’re not interested in the psychological or moral or social life. In the social life,they certainly are, more than most of us. In themoral, they are by and large the soundest group ofintellectuals we have; there is a moral componentright in the grain of science itself, and almost allscientists form their own judgments of the morallife. In the psychological they have as much interest as most of us, though occasionally I fancy theycome to it rather late. It isn’t that they lack the interests. It is much more that the whole literature ofthe traditional culture doesn’t seem to them relevant to those interests. They are, of course, deadwrong. As a result, their imaginative understanding is less than it could be. They are self-impoverished. The Two Cultures

4. 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. The Two Cultures