Campus Quote by Richard P. Feynman

Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become…

— Martha Nussbaum

The first thing you get from the humanities, when they're well taught, is critical thinking. Philosophy in particular can play that role, not just…

— Martha Nussbaum

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money…

— Alain de Botton

Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!

— Winston Churchill

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind.

— Alexander Barclay

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

— Clifford Geertz

I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.

— Terence Tao

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the…

— Terry Eagleton

“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

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in…

— Mario Savio

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the…

— Robert Watson-Watt