Was not humanism in part an easier way for princes and their sons who found the existing university requirements too harsh
Diderot had a truly Gargantuan hunger for knowledge, a hunger that in the eyes of the humanist degenerates into a mere lust (libido sciendi), because of its lack of measure and restraint
mortality rates invariably fall when doctors go on strike
Economics cannot claim to be a scientific field if its main theories are not subject to empirical testing and possible rejection
Die Wage wird sich erst dann in Bewegung setzen, wenn Geschichte oder Wissenschaft sie befrachtet hat, und ihre Erscheinung kann daher an keine bestimmte Zeit gebunden sein
Fusion has been just ten years away for at least the last thirty years. And every time, they say “this time it is different”
Getting through a 17th to 19th century salon was hard work without some “naturalist” grounding. That more balanced life of the mind could come back into fashion
clinical psychology … practices conservative social action disguised as medical treatment
the very act of assigning a number to a variable makes it a distance
a congenial intellectual environment, in which many modern linguists would have been seen as what they are – mechanics, not scientists at all