Quotes from C.P. Snow

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

I think, on the whole that scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us, and I admire them for it.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.