C.P. Snow Quotes

 "The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:  if you pursue happiness you'll never find it." ~ C.P. Snow

 "What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist." ~ C.P. Snow

 "Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish." ~ C.P. Snow

 "The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it." ~ C.P. Snow

 "Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose." ~ C.P. Snow

 "I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along." ~ C.P. Snow

 "If you pursue happiness you never find it." ~ C.P. Snow

 "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

 "Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it." ~ C.P. Snow

 "Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time." ~ C.P. Snow

 "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

 "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

 "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

 "Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century." ~ C.P. Snow

 "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

 "Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings." ~ C.P. Snow

 "I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one." ~ C.P. Snow