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The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study…

— Richard P. Feynman

“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the…

— Karl Popper

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

— Georg Brandes

“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

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

— John Derbyshire

“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

“What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?”

— Joan Countryman

“The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.”

— Christina Baldwin

“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

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

— Albert Einstein