A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who†are thought highly educated and who have†been expressing their incredulityat 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.

-Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron
  TheTwo Cultures, Rede Lecture, ch.1.