C.P. Snow

Do you think that two cultures applies to our society now? And what has been your experience in bridging this chasm between these two?

C.P. Snow's characterization of the two cultures is of a time.

It's, so it was at that particular time, the project of modernity of science and technology changing the world.

This was when the world was starting to get decolonized.

He disliked, he hated telephones and watches as well.

So when people would visit his hotel room, he would comment on the telephone in the room stating, "If you fancy yourself with a telephone, there is one in the next room." [laughs] And one of my favorite stories is when he had to use the phone to make an emergency phone call to the physical chemist, C.P.

Snow.

Instead of engaging in conversation, he started to yell into the phone saying, "I shan't hear a word you say, so when I'm finished, I shall immediately put the receiver down.