I did get a very fine education, and not just in science…

“Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

— Jeannette Walls

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature…

— Samuel Butler

“If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world's population, like mental mayonnaise, we'd have more art, less war, and higher…

— Jarod Kintz

“If science took the side of regulation—or even gave evidence to support the idea that regulation might be needed to protect the life on…

— Naomi Oreskes

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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