Quotes About Humanities And Social Sciences

#1. [I]n the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on ... people have to be trained to be managers, and controllers, and to accept things, and not to question too much.

Noam Chomsky

#2. His office was on the third floor of the Humanities & Social Sciences Building, just down the hall from the interview room. On the office door was a Peanuts cartoon of Lucy in the psychiatrist's booth with the little DOCTOR is IN sign. Professor Mitchell, a man on the cutting edge of humor.

Rick Riordan

#3. Love points the way, empties you of the stuff of life, carries you at last to the mystery of creation.

Orhan Pamuk

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

Estelle Morris

#5. Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

#6. I suppose the situation varies from field to field. If you're a mathematician, your proficiency in English may not be such a problem. If you're in the humanities or social sciences, there is no doubt that it is a handicap for you.

Henry Rosovsky

#7. 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

#8. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Mark Twain

#9. She would tell him what she wanted in her life
her hopes and dreams for the future
and he would listen intently and then promise to make it all come true. And the way he said it made her believe him, and she knew how much he meant to her.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.'
-Kathana to Mat

Robert Jordan

#11. I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

Ellen Ullman

#12. Have you ever known grieving that ends only when your own heart stops beating?

Karen White

#13. What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary

Simon Baron-Cohen