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Charles Percy (C.P.) Snow
(15 Oct 1905 - 1 Jul 1980)

English physicist, novelist and government administrator.

Science Quotes by Charles Percy (C.P.) Snow (2)

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.
— Charles Percy (C.P.) Snow
As quoted in J. Robert Moskin, Morality in America, 61. Otherwise unconfirmed in this form. Please contact webmaster if you know a primary print source.
See also:  |  Knowledge (341)  |  Responsibility (4)  |  Scientist (78)  |  Search (12)  |  Truth (247)  |  Use (8)

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
— Charles Percy (C.P.) Snow
Spoken by the fictional character, Luard, an unhappy school chemistry teacher in the novel The Search (1932), 21.
See also:  |  Biography (159)  |  Sir Humphry Davy (36)


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