Quotes About Humanities

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

When I came into the job, funding for the humanities at the federal level was being drastically cut. This was the high tide of the new Republican Congress.

The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.

Semyon was a natural scientist; he liked to say he trafficked in facts, not niceties. Manners were for intellectual weaklings in the humanities.

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are.

le fait religieux peut être analysé comme un antidote à la violence. La nouveauté de la pensée de cet auteur lui a valu de devoir se réfugier, comme d'autres spécialistes français des sciences humaines – Paul Ricœur et Michel Serres, par exemple – aux États-Unis pour poursuivre ses recherches, ces sciences étant alors en France exclusivement construites autour du marxisme, du freudisme et du structuralisme.

Their legacy to America was immense, and the social sciences and humanities as well as the fine arts, music and drama would be unimaginable today without the contribution of these émigrés.

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 are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.

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.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

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

The humanities and social sciences devote most of their energies to explaining exactly how the imagined order is woven into the tapestry of life. In the limited space at our disposal we can only scratch the surface. Three main factors prevent people from realising that the order organising their lives exists only in their imagination:

The humanities, in contrast, emphasise the crucial importance of intersubjective entities, which cannot be reduced to hormones and neurons.

The humanities and social sciences devote most of their energies to explaining exactly how the imagined order is woven into the tapestry of life.

The humanities, in contrast, emphasise the crucial importance of intersubjective entities, which cannot be reduced to hormones and neurons. To think historically means to ascribe real power to the contents of our imaginary stories.

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.

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 in universities but in schools as well.

Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

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