Lee, A similar quote appears in a "The Theater Critic and His Double" by John Simon in the _Hudson Review_:
"Thus he sees, apparently, two Edmund Wilsons where there is only one admittedly large one, two cultures where one wonders whether there is even one, and a whole wit in George Steiner." which could be "Thus he sees . . . two cultures where one wonders whether there is even one . . . ." http://www.jstor.org/stable/3848465 Other than that I didn't find anything on Google. Yet, I'm curious why the "can discern" version is worth 10+ years of searching. Best, Shawn On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > "At the time I said I was reminded of what the critic > John Simon had said about CP Snow: 'He sees two cultures > where I see barely one.'" (Raymond Sokolov, _Why We Eat > What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World > Eats_, thanks to Google Books) > > I remember the quotation attributed to Simon somewhat > differently (where Sokolov quotes "see", I remember > "can discern"), and now that I have a pointer to Simon > I'll continue looking for the horse's-mouth version; > but at last Google now has it (I've searched for it on > Google every few months, as long as there's been a > Google to search for it on, and otherwise longer than > that, including on many newsgroups and mailing lists). > > Meanwhile, what do all you-all think about the Google > Car (the autonomous urban transporter, not the Google > Street View snooper), > <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/science/10google.html?>? > It's very interesting (to me) that, at least in the Times > article, although Sebastian Thrun naturally is featured > largely, somehow the phrase "Willow Garage" never appears. > Maybe Google *is* evil, hmm? > > Lee Rudolph > > > Let's leave it to C.P. Snow < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures>: > > > > A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the > > standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who > > have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the > > illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have > asked > > the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of > > Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was > > asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: *Have you read a > > work of Shakespeare's?* > > > > I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question - such as, > What > > do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent > of > > saying, *Can you read?* - not more than one in ten of the highly educated > > would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great > edifice > > of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in > > the western world have about as much insight into it as > > their neolithic ancestors would have had. > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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