The text of C.P. Snow’s 1960 Godkin Lectures delivered at Harvard University, in a sense a continuation on the themes of his famous lecture on the ‘two cultures’, in which Snow ‘warned against the undue influence which scientists with political agendas acquire when political leaders are ignorant of science, pointing to examples from his experience in the Second World War. Again his message was that the political misunderstandings of the technologically illiterate were as dangerous as the misuse of science’ (ODNB).
