"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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― Irving Babbitt
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- "A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
- "Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself."
- "We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
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- "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings."― Helen Keller
- "The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors."― Vernor Vinge