Technology…is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
—C. P. Snow
Topics: Technology
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
—C. P. Snow
Innocence about Science is the worst crime today.
—C. P. Snow
Topics: Science
Civilization is hideously fragile… there’s not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
—C. P. Snow
Topics: Civilization
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
—C. P. Snow
Topics: Science
Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn’t want it, one doesn’t get it.
—C. P. Snow
Topics: Fame