The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the…

What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling…

— Bill Gates

Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do…

— Brian Boyd

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

— Ken Robinson

We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle…

— Ken Robinson

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers,…

— Noam Chomsky

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.…

— Camille Paglia

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with…

— Elliott Colla

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely…

— Lisa Randall

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the…

— Stephen Hawking

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish.…

— Nicholas Kristof

“In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics is too…

— Philip Roth

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

— Winston Churchill

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe