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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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The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality…. Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. – Irving Babbitt

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Environment
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt

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Faith
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. – Irving Babbitt

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Failure
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I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. – David Eagleman

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If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. – James Lovelock

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Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction. – Rudy Rucker

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The science for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution. – Ray Comfort

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