Challenge of Cultures
... At the Rede Lecture, in 1959, with the Cold War rampant, Sir Charles Percy Snow made a speech arguing that there were two cultures, one scientific, one humanistic, and a lack of communication between them. ... He had experience life in both cultures, but felt that each was incomplete. ... The problem with the lack of communication between the two cultures is not deficiency of knowledge, but an inability to ask relevant questions. ... Snow saw that the two cultures of the humanities and science could, in the same way, enhance the game of life if only each would recognize the benefits of embracing one another.