The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance. — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. — Harry Amos Bullis Copy Share Image
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But science is the collection of nature's answers; the humanities the collection of men's thoughts. — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law. — Connor Jessup Copy Share Image
Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We all admire great accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities - but we rarely acknowledge how much we achieve in the… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Yes, as long as things are being compared to food, Digital Humanities may indeed be the smoked salmon, sour cream, capers and… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy -- for some, strangely or frighteningly easy -- to join… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism,… — Nick Denton Copy Share Image
Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
“If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can… — Peter singer Copy Share Image
“Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“More than twenty years ago Sir Charles Snow lamented the sharp division between “The Two Cultures,” the literary/artistic and the scientific. My… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized,… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“And that is why I would propose that, in our teaching of the humanities, we should emphasize the enduring creations of the… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced. — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
“. . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.” — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
