Contempt Quote by Allan Bloom

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

— Clifford Geertz

Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. They do…

— Brian Boyd

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is…

— Michael Kinsley

“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social sciences into…

— Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Combine science and humanities.

— Steve Jobs

If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who…

— Brian Boyd

There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other.…

— Noam Chomsky

“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry, biology, these…

— Abhijit Naskar

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no…

— Max Lerner

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

— Rebecca Goldstein