Humanities Quotes

When young people have the opportunity to explore the arts and humanities and discover their creative side, a new world is opened to these students. - Laura Bush

We've gotten enormous response to this study. I had a phone call from a professor from the University of Kansas who wanted to incorporate some [of the results] into his humanities class. - Larry McQuillan

We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature. - Steven Pinker

We have a good representation from the school, some [professors] from humanities, arts, and sciences. - Joe McLaughlin

There's a huge range of topics folks work on, both professional and personal. It's really a vital, busy place -- it's like a humanities laboratory in many ways, with people studying people. - Tim West

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. - Camille Paglia

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... - Richard Feynman

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

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