Frasi di Charles Percy Snow

Charles Percy Snow è stato uno scienziato e scrittore inglese.

✵ 15. Ottobre 1905 – 1. Luglio 1980

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“Ciascuno di noi è solo: talvolta sfuggiamo alla solitudine con l'amore o l'affetto o, forse, in certi momenti di creazione, ma questi trionfi della vita sono piccole zone illuminate che ci creiamo, mentre il margine della strada rimane avvolto nell'oscurità: ciascuno di noi muore solo.”

Charles Percy Snow

da Le due culture, traduzione di Adriano Carugo, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1964

“[Su Albert Einstein] Per me è il più grande intelletto del secolo, e quasi certamente la massima incarnazione dell'esperienza morale. Per molti aspetti, era diverso dal resto della nostra stirpe.”

Charles Percy Snow

Origine: Citato in Alexander Moszowski, Conversation with Einstein, Horizon Press, New York, 1970 e in Einstein: A Centenary Volume, a cura di A.P. French, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1979, p. 193; citato in Albert Einstein, Pensieri di un uomo curioso (The Quotable Einstein), a cura di Alice Calaprice, prefazione di Freeman Dyson, traduzione di Sylvie Coyaud, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milano, 1997, p. 181. ISBN 88-04-47479-3

“Se si chiede: «Che cos'è la cultura? Chi è dotato di cultura?», l'ago della bussola punta con una coincidenza straordinaria, nella direzione di noi stessi.”

Charles Percy Snow

da Le due culture, Marsilio, 2005, p. 71

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“There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.”

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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Origine: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 61
Contesto: 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.

“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.”

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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Origine: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 10

“A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?”

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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Origine: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), Pp. 15-16

“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.”

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C. P. Snow libro The Two Cultures

Origine: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959), P. 4

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.”

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Public Affairs (London: Macmillan, 1971) p. 195

“There are no secrets in science.”

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The Physicists (1981), published posthumously.

“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.”

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C. P. Snow

Francis King Yesterday Came Suddenly (London: Constable, 1993) p. 83.

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