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 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.

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

The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 have a long-term interest in the humanities.

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.

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.

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education.

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.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.