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What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents'…

— Nicholas Kristof

“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

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

Combine science and humanities.

— Steve Jobs

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“Writers more interested in literature than the truth ensure that they never come out with either thing — one reason that the word literature today sounds…

— The editors n+1

“Instead of distinct old and new media, what we have is a complex cultural ecosystem that spans the analog and digital, encompassing physical places…

— Astra Taylor

“Natural science, economics, and politics depend on literature, philosophy, and religion for educating the imagination... we cannot oppose facts to values, but... all facts…

— Jens Zimmermann

Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.

— Louis Stanley

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

— Allan Bloom

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

— Richard Feynman

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

— Umberto Eco