Calling Quote by J. Irwin Miller

“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute…

— Edward O. Wilson

To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done;…

— Howard Mumford Jones

“. . the humanities encourage the development of our own humanity. They are our instruments of self-exploration.”

— Michael Dirda

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

“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 just end…

— Abhijit Naskar

“...it is necessary to act within but to think beyond our received humanist tradition and, all the while, to imagine a much more complicated…

— Lisa Lowe

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..

— Stanley Fish

“Like the sunlight and the firelight that guided our birth, we need a unified humanities and science to construct a full and honest picture…

— Edward O. Wilson

I'm a humanist at heart: at the end of the day, we are all human beings.

— Chet Faker

To be human is to be in a story.

— Anonymous

“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

Literature is humanity talking to itself.

— Norman Rush