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The two cultures

by C. P. Snow

*The Two Cultures* is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow. Its thesis was that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" was split into the titular two cultures — namely the sciences and the humanities — and that this was a major hindrance to solving the world's problems. The talk was delivered 7 May 1959 in the Senate House, Cambridge, and subsequently published as *The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution*. The lecture and book expanded upon an article by Snow published in the *New Statesman* of 6 October 1956, also entitled *The Two Cultures*. Published in book form, Snow's lecture was widely read and discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, leading him to write a 1963 follow-up, *The Two Cultures: And a Second Look: An Expanded Version of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution*. [[Wikipedia][1]] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures "Wikipedia"

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