...were diminished.5 For a contemporary statement it is perhaps best to recall the thesis of CP Snow that "the intellectual life of the whole of Western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups.1'5 World War II and the postwar years had been a period of unprecedented scientific advance...

...ease by saying, 'Oh, those are mathematicians! We never talk to them.' No, I intend something serious. I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western...is increasingly being split into two polar groups. When I say the intellectual life, I mean to include also a large part of our practical life, because...

...Rede Lecture on "The two cultures and the scientific revolution". Snow ([1964]: 3 — 4) argued that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society...is increasingly being split into two polar groups" and that "at one pole we have the literary intellectuals ... at the other scientists, and as the most...

...a thousand miles starts with a single step. Chinese proverb Literary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists.... Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension. Charles Snow tonnes per year) remains unused and stored. It follows that during the previous 300 million...

...influence, he generalized it to include the intellectual life of all of Western society, asserting that this society "is increasingly being split into two polar...literary intellectuals ... at the other scientists." To make his point, he posed, as a test of scientific literacy for humanists, the question: "What do...

...1959 Snow coined a term which is still used and familiar to many. His basic points run as follows:8 I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western...polar groups [...] At one pole we have the literary 4 Cf. eg FR Leavis's article "Mutually Necessary", in: Leavis, The Critic as Anti-Philosopher: Essays...

...Cambridge University, on "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution." In that lecture, he argued that "the intellectual life of the whole of Western society...is increasingly being split into two polar groups": literary intellectuals and scientists. Lord Snow described the "gulf of mutual incomprehension" that...

...of Scholars; the liberal Teachers for a Democratic Culture. "Literary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists.... Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension." This was C. P Snow, writing some thirty-five years ago ma book called The Two Cultures and the Scientific...

...the threat of thermo-nuclear war. He stated his principal thesis in the following interesting way: "I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western...... At one pole we have the literary intellectuals, who incidentally while no one was looking took to referring to themselves as 'intellectuals' as though...

...to characterise it, arose out of the new hermeneutical practices of the previous century. Conclusion I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western...literary intellectuals ... at the other scientists. CP Snow, The Two Cultures. In this book I have argued that the historical origins of two of the hallmarks...