#humanities

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#defended #encroachments #humanities #need #needed

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#culture #fulfillment #globe #humanities #learn

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american #american history #because #could #encouragement

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

— Clifford Geertz

#between #deep #false #gulf #humanities

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#college #english #english major #fine #fine arts

Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#everything-is-possible #inspirational #magic #music #nothing-is-impossible

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts #arts-and-humanities #dignity #dignity-in-the-arts

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#calling #human #humanities #make #sense

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#basic elements #cry #educated #education #elements

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#came #challenging #could #difficult #fact