Humanities Quotes
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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
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There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding themselves with philosophers and poets, or playwrights. We do not live in that moment, and the best way to gauge the proximity of an academic field to power is by salary.
Elliott Colla
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Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Alfred L. Kroeber
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America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
James A. Leach
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It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
Steve Jobs
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Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's something that's not booming at the moment, let's slash it.
Brian Boyd
