“The phrase “men of science” was used by the scientists themselves, all men. C. P. Snow, remembered today as the author of The Two Cultures (1959), was also the author of the “Lewis Eliot” series of novels on Cambridge college life and its academic (and other) politics in the 1930s and later. He offered the perfect caricature of this behavior in the character of Crawford, who would often preface any opinion he offered to his colleagues with the authoritative phrase, “Speaking as a man of science . . .”