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
“Since the humanities are not problem-oriented, Lou Burnard argues that their methodologies cannot be formalized.” — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion. — Terence Tao Copy Share Image
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
“But at MIT there was a rule: You have to take some humanities courses to get more “culture.” — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life. — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time. — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false — Clifford Geertz 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
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
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
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 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
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
“Like the sunlight and the firelight that guided our birth, we need a unified humanities and science to construct a full and… — Edward O. Wilson 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
“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
“Meanwhile, because humanity is still swept along by animal passions in a digitalized global world, and because we are conflicted between what… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because… — Damon Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The humanities the core of the university. She may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I think we've lost the idea that politicians are part of the humanities. And we think of them as part of a… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to… — Harry Amos Bullis 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 a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything… — Aldous Huxley 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Tolerence ought to be humanities community and knowledge should be an individuals goal.” — Clarrissa Lee Moon Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
