Thursday, November 21, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

C. P. Snow

« All quotes from this author
 

There are no secrets in science.
--
The Physicists (1981), published posthumously.

 
C. P. Snow

» C. P. Snow - all quotes »



Tags: C. P. Snow Quotes, Science Quotes, Authors starting by S


Similar quotes

 

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

 
Cory Doctorow
 

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

 
Charles Caleb Colton
 

Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.

 
Adam Smith
 

Only puny secrets need protection. Big secrets are protected by public incredulity. You can actually dissipate a situation by giving it maximal coverage. As to alarming people, that's done by rumours, not by coverage.

 
Marshall McLuhan
 

I think the new science fiction, which other people apart from myself are now beginning to write, is introverted, possibly pessimistic rather than optimistic, much less certain of its own territory. There's a tremendous confidence that radiates through all modern American science fiction of the period 1930 to 1960; the certainty that science and technology can solve all problems. This is not the dominant form of science fiction now. I think science fiction is becoming something much more speculative, much less convinced about the magic of science and the moral authority of science. There's far more caution on the part of the new writers than there was.

 
J. G. Ballard
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact