A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
- Camille PagliaI think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.
- Alan LoewensteinAt different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
- Alejandro UrregoEvery community in my district has benefited from the National Endowment for the Arts and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Amir SalimI 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.
- Andrei IllarionovAnthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
- Alfred L. Kroeber