Humanities Quotes · Page 2

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

— J. Irwin Miller

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

“Tolerence ought to be humanities community and knowledge should be an individuals goal.”

— Clarrissa Lee Moon

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

— Clifford Geertz

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

— Gordon S. Wood

Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.

— Alissa Quart

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

— Terence Tao

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

— Rafael Moneo

“it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that make our heart sing.”

— Scott Hartley

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders…

— Joshua Lederberg

“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

Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left…

— Siri Hustvedt

I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no…

— Stefan Banach

I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try…

— Rebecca Goldstein

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the…

— George Lucas

Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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

— Nicholas Kristof

“The arts and humanities are not mere entertainment, to be turned to for relaxation after a busy day spent solving differential equations;…

— John Derbyshire

“The ecological crisis we face is so obvious that it becomes easy -- for some, strangely or frighteningly easy -- to join…

— Timothy Morton

The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast…

— Allan Bloom

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and…

— Joseph Stiglitz

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism,…

— Nick Denton

“If our best-educated citizens have no idea how to answer these basic questions, we will struggle to build a democracy that can…

— Peter singer

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It…

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Terry Eagleton

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

“But at MIT there was a rule: You have to take some humanities courses to get more “culture.”

— Richard Feynman

“Since the humanities are not problem-oriented, Lou Burnard argues that their methodologies cannot be formalized.”

— Melissa Terras

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

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

— Terry Eagleton

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

— Vincent Massey

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

— Jim Leach

“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber”

— Alfred L. Kroeber

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

— Martha Nussbaum

I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.

— Andrew Lincoln

Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

— Anonymous

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

— Jim Leach

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

— Mia Wasikowska

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding…

— Stefan Collini

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had…

— Nora Roberts