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자기들만의 상식 선언

사람들은 민중의례도 모르는구나.

이걸 보니 하나 생각나는 게 있어서 이 업계의 고전 중 하나인 이야기.

"A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's? "

C.P. Snow 의 The two culture 에서 인용