ABSTRACT
In 1959, the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow gave his influential Rede lecture at Cambridge University. In it, he emphasised how science and the humanities, representing ‘the intellectual life of the whole of western society: have become split into ‘two cultures’ and that this division forms a major handicap to solving the world’s problems. These two cultures, according to Snow, are that of the natural scientists on one hand, and the literary intellectuals on the other.
