C. P. Snow discussed the two cultures of scientific "versus" humanities. Snow's initially focused on differences between British systems of schooling and social class as compared to competing countries, like the United States. Snow thought that US schools did a better job at bringing sciences and humanities together in scholarly writing and thought, while British schools more often kept these 2 cultures more separate. He was saying British schools set aside the world's Greek and Latin roots and turned away from classical writers when scholars delved into sciences, while humanities' scholars could quote the best classical writings but be unable to think and write scientifically. In the US, scholars put these two cultures together much better.

"Contrasting scientific and humanistic knowledge is a repetition of the Methodenstreit of 1890 German universities.[13]In the social sciences it is also commonly proposed as the quarrel of positivism versus interpretivism." (Wikipedia) However, considering the intervening period between 1890 and 1959, and considering that Britain has some of the oldest and most renown schools, colleges, and universities, this was again a radical discussion in 1959! The problem was how to bring the two cultures together.

"In 2008, The Times Literary Supplement included The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution in its list of the 100 books that most influenced Western public discourse since the Second World War.[2]" (Wikipedia) By 1963, Snow seemed to propose there may be a third culture. John Brockman (1995) picked up this idea in The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. "In his opening address at the Munich Security Conference in January 2014, the Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves said that the current problems related to security and freedom in cyberspace are the culmination of absence of dialogue between "the two cultures"..." (Wikipedia)

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