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
“In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Reading the classics… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role… — Terry Eagleton 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
“Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing… — Carol S. Dweck 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
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
With the closures of art schools and the drop-off in humanities, you can see where that's a direct loss for the country. — Kelly Reichardt 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
“A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.” — Stefan Collini 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
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. — Jim Leach Copy Share Image
I always did plays, and when I went to NYU - and I didn't go to Tisch, the theater school, because I… — Steve Zissis 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
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
“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber” — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools.… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate.… — Frank Donoghue Copy Share Image
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“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
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
