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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

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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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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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My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron. – Eliza Dushku

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Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them. – Abraham Flexner, Universities, 1930

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. – J. G. Ballard

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It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. – Don Herold

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