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I have a long-term interest in the humanities.
The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing.
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
I was never very good at school with... humanities... anything which was more a matter of opinion.
I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.
I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
We should stop selecting leaders from a subset of Oxbridge egomaniacs with a humanities degree and a spell as spin doctor.
In South Carolina, there's a lot of arts programs. So I was blessed enough to go to the Governor School For Arts & Humanities.
What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's 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.
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.
We all admire great accomplishments in the sciences, arts, and humanities - but we rarely acknowledge how much we achieve in the course of our everyday lives.
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
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.
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.
Many scholars working in the humanities have already shown interest in brain research. For years, contemporary theory in the humanities has left the body and biology out of their discussions.
Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.
I didn't get a Bachelor's degree - I got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts, which means I didn't have to take humanities, math, and stuff like that. I think I had to take Art History, which I failed a few times.
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.
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.
There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.
The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.
I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
In my junior year of high school, I went to a boarding school for the arts: a school called the Governor's School for The Arts and Humanities. It was basically a mini-Juilliard - an intense training conservatory for the arts.
I was always meant to study the humanities; I was no good at math or sciences. When it came time for me to work, it was Soviet times, and journalism wasn't that free or interesting of a space. There was a lot of censorship; it was difficult.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.