“Yes, as long as things are being compared to food, Digital Humanities may indeed be the smoked salmon, sour cream, capers and… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We all admire great accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities - but we rarely acknowledge how much we achieve in the… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing. — Steve Jobs 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
“The humanities and social sciences devote most of their energies to explaining exactly how the imagined order is woven into the tapestry… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“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
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
Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas.… — Brian Boyd 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 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
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is… — John Updike 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
“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 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
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
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 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
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
I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“My interest in spiritual approaches to medical problems should not, however, be construed as a dismissal of science; rather it is a… — Ann Cvetkovich Copy Share Image
“It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a… — Damon Horowitz 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
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their… — Deborah Harkness 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
“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
