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Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences. -- Samuel R. Delany
We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences. -- John Powell
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. -- David Hume
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. -- Jared Diamond
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
Barth's approach tears up any possibility of dialogue between faith and unfaith or between theology and other human sciences. Theology just says what it says on the basis of scripture, and that's that. -- George Pattison
The scientific picture of the world championed since the Enlightenment is not just wrong but massively wrong. Indeed entire fields of inquiry, especially in the human sciences, will need to be rethought from the ground up in terms of intelligent design. -- William A. Dembski
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. -- Tom DeLonge
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock
One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. -- Alexander Pope
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. -- Thomas Love Peacock
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human. -- Felix Bloch
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. -- John Charles Polanyi
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. -- Steven Pinker
Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human. -- Brian Greene
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base. -- Ahmed Zewail
The Nobel prizes memorialize Alfred Nobel's faith in the contribution that human thought, directed to science and art, can make to human welfare. -- Herbert A. Simon
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. -- Ian Hacking
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. -- Michael Shermer
Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society. -- Paul Berg
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all. -- Julian Baggini
An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind. -- Tony Hoare
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science. -- Sam Harris
The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. -- Mae Jemison
If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance. -- James P. Gorman
Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs. -- Isaac Barrow
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect. -- Thomas de Quincey
Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. -- Mason Cooley
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human. -- Thomas Paine
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience. -- Eric Kandel
The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity. -- Ludwig von Mises

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