The humanities cannot ever be more than "a best guess" because there's nothing to verify or test the answer against.
Hi Stile,
You are a detective and there has been a bank robbery. Bank manager has been shot and killed for refusing to open the vault.
You have 5 witnesses to the crime.
A biologist, a chemist, a physicist, a mathematician, and an artist.
You get a description of the criminal from the 4 "science" types. The artist draws you a portrait of the criminal.
Given your quote above, do you throw out the drawing as bullshit?
Science is observation plus an explanation.
The humanities are OBSERVATION.
The sciences show and teach us how to explain what we observe, the humanities teach use how to look at and observe the world, not necessarily explain it.
Science begins with observation, but we have to know all the ways of observing, that is where the humanities come in.(Do you really think a scientist who cannot draw sees the world the same way someone who can draw does?)
The accurate observation is first, then come the explanations.
To discover new things a person must be able to think and observe in all the ways possible, that includes not only science but all the humanities as well.
Education cannot teach a person everything, there is just to much to know. What it can do is try to teach a person all the ways of observing and thinking. A person who can draw, or play music, or speak a second language sees the world differently than someone who cannot. In the same way a person who knows math or science sees much more around them relating to that.
To me the basis of science is observation, as such the humanities rooted in different ways of observing, are fundamental to doing science.
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