Shlomo Shapira: The Second Low of Thermodymics and TWO cultures

שלמה שפירא-Shlomo Shapira

 

 

 the Second Low of Thermodymics and TWO cultures  

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The significance of C.P.Snow

, by F.R.Leavis

Cambridge

 

1962,London

 Chatto &Windus

 

 

page 42

 

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 Low of Thermodymics. The  response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's

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30/03/2012