ENGB52H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Steven Pinker, Physical Chemistry, Thomas Henry Huxley
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Science and humanities have come down different paths way into the 20th century. Traditional culture and the humanities refuse to look at the natural world, this creates conflict. He calls the humanities natural luddites, which are men refusing to understand the industrial revolution. Snow believes that industrialization is the hope of the poor and this revolution was followed by the scientific revolution in the area of electronics, atomics and automation. This widened the cultural divide because scientists lost the ability to communicate with the mechanics and artisans of the industry who understood the industrial revolution. Basically, scientisits and humanities share a common problem, but they don"t have any ways of communicating with each other or the rest of us. Then he discusses the rich and the poor. He blamed the divide on the failure of the poor nations to industrialize.
