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C.P. Snow: "Berkali-kali saya hadir di pertemuan orang-orang yang, men...

"Berkali-kali saya hadir di pertemuan orang-orang yang, menurut standar budaya tradisional, dianggap berpendidikan tinggi dan yang dengan penuh semangat mengekspresikan keragu-raguan mereka pada buta aksara para ilmuwan. Sekali atau dua kali saya terpancing dan bertanya pada perusahaan berapa banyak dari mereka yang bisa menjelaskan Hukum Kedua Termodinamika. Responsnya dingin: juga negatif. Namun saya bertanya sesuatu yang setara dengan ilmiah: Apakah Anda pernah membaca karya Shakespeare?"

--- C.P. Snow

Versi Bahasa Inggris

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 about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?