Don’t we need trained minds to handle all this?
A great deal of ink has been spilt over the nature of the relationship between the arts and sciences since C. P. Snow delivered his Two Cultures lecture in 1959. But that lecture has largely been taken out of context. Snow was frankly not interested in whether the plays of Shakespeare or the second law of thermodynamics was the more appropriate starting point for a full and rich understanding of contemporary Britain. Rather, the lecture was the culmination, rather than the beginning, of a postwar debate about the role of science in British society.
