This work argues that asking someone to describe the second law of thermodynamics is the scientific equivalent of asking someone if they've read Shakespeare.
At one point, the author of this work relates a story ending with the President of a college at Cambridge saying, "Oh, those are mathematicians! We never talk to them." It also quotes a scientist who described Yeats, Pound and Wyndham Lewis as "not only politically silly, but politically wicked," as well as quoting G.H. Hardy's remark that Rutherford and Eddington are no longer considered intellectuals. This work argues that asking someone to describe the second law of thermodynamics is the scientific equivalent of asking someone if they've read Shakespeare. For 10 points, name this lecture by C.P. Snow about the gap between the sciences and the humanities.
At one point, the author of this work relates a story ending with the President of a college at Cambridge saying, "Oh, those are mathematicians!
“The {Two Cultures}” [accept “The {Two Cultures} and the {Scientific Revolution}”]