“Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars, but it's humanities that make sure, we don't leave behind our humanity, otherwise we'll… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The humanities, in contrast, emphasise the crucial importance of intersubjective entities, which cannot be reduced to hormones and neurons.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics,… — Robert Watson-Watt Copy Share Image
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
“Since the development of mathematics is often inspired and guided by aesthetic considerations, mathematics can be described as “amphibious”: It is both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a… — Damon Horowitz Copy Share Image
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Where scientific observation addresses all phenomena existing in the real world, scientific experimentation addresses all possible real worlds, and scientific theory addresses… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others… — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go to an arts middle… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“My interest in spiritual approaches to medical problems should not, however, be construed as a dismissal of science; rather it is a… — Ann Cvetkovich Copy Share Image
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role,… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
