26 Quotes by C.P. Snow

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

The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a dangerous process

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.

Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes—as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.[Upon hearing the Periodic Table explained in a first-tern university lecture.]

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.

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.

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.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.