Quotes About Culture

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.