I like Bacon's scientist better than Snow's

Bacon, unlike Snow, acknowledges the human fallibility of the scientist and the awesome power of scientific knowledge and its pursuit to raise the scientist to new heights or to destroy him.  Perhaps one of the reasons Bacon is so sensitive to the drama of science is because he is well-versed in the drama of myth.  Within his study of myth Bacon learns the dangers of letting your passions run away with you, of challenging God's plan with your own, etc., and can warn the scientist of these things.  Snow would have his scientists miss out on everything Bacon learns from myth because to Snow myth is traditional and therefore not valuable.  Bacon gets an experience of both cultures, and his work is better for it.  I believe ours is as well.