the two cultures
/ðə ˌtuː ˈkʌltʃəz/
/ðə ˌtuː ˈkʌltʃərz/
- a phrase made popular by the author C P Snow in 1959. He used it to describe the division between the arts and the sciences in Britain, and argued that people trained in the arts did not understand or appreciate people trained in the sciences.