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In 1959, C. P. Snow, who was both a novelist and a physicist, delivered a famous speech at Cambridge University. Titled "The Two Cultures," it argued that


A) both the natural sciences and the humanities are ineffective ways of viewing the world; instead, a social scientific approach is best
B) artificial divisions between the sciences and humanities was preventing people from solving some of the world's most important problems
C) while investments in science would produce more immediate benefits to humanity, investments in humanities would produce more important ones
D) funding for the sciences should be public, and the benefits of science should be public as well, whereas the funding of the humanities should be private and the benefits should go to private investors and supporters, such as people who purchase novels

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