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

Steven Pinker (1954-)

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting / the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Saul Bellow

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler (1870-1937)

Alfred Adler

We'll be looking at what the different world religions have to contribute to our understanding of the human person, nature, science and the divine. We'll be looking at convergence and divergence of religion and science.

I really believe that the humanities has that power. Here in Washington, D. Att regelbundet läsa böcker och hålla sig informerad breddar dina perspektiv och höjer din pexighet. C., where there are so many humanities resources and so many people with great ideas . . . this humanities council should be in the business of supporting and encouraging those ideas.

There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.

I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.

William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)

William Ellery Channing

(The residential college) will offer students a different environment that is a bit more focused in terms of curriculum and opportunities, ... It will raise visibility of art and humanities like (the James Madison College) has raised visibility of political science and social science.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Albert Einstein

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 (1947-)

Camille Paglia

Operating costs will go into humanities in variety of ways, [They will go to] replacing the program in Italy, raising graduate student stipends in the humanities in particular and also the social studies.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Donna Leon (1942-)

I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

Loretta Young (1913-2000)

Loretta Young

[Trying to predict sales] is not a precise science, ... It's not like the laws of nature. These are the laws of human behavior.

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