26 Quotes by C.P. Snow

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

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.

Groups of men, even small groups, act strangely differently from individuals. They have less humour and simpler humour, are more easy to frighten, more difficult to charm, distrust the mysterious more, and enjoy firm, flat, competent expositions which a man by himself would find inexcusably dull. Perhaps.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn’t want it, one doesn’t get it.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.