Academic Fields Quotes

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method.

Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history.

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.

We like to invent new disciplines or look at new problems, and invent bandwagons rather than jump on them.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

A curious observation is the uniform way that committees review curriculum for each field of study. Too often, authorities have a knee-jerk impulse to declare that 'all curriculum areas will be the same.' In fact, real and significant differences exist between fields of study.

I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.

I'm not a sociologist, I'm not a political scientist, but I'm a fairly intuitive person.

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting does.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

My thesis is that all disciplines find their completion in Christ and cannot be properly understood apart from Christ.