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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments

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

Other quotes by Irving Babbitt

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness
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Irving Babbitt
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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Science
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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. – David Hilbert

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Science

The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down. – Alex Jason [Popularized by Adam Savage in MythBusters. Supposedly, Karl Kruszeln

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Science

Thats the whole problem with science. Youve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder. – Bill Watterson

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Science

Scientists should always state the opinions upon which their facts are based. – Author Unknown

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Science

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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. – Thomas Carlyle

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Societys dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place – the place of our separation, our distinction – that much of his poetry occupies. – Tomas Transtromer

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. – Aneurin Bevan

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power

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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