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<p>Hi Tom</p>
<p>This is in Gross and Levitt's <i>Higher Superstition</i>, page
243: "If, taking a fanciful hypothesis, the humanities department
of MIT (a bastion, by the way, of left-wing rectitude) were to
walk out in a huff..." <br>
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<p>Best<br>
James<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21 Oct 16 20:32, Thomas Haigh wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello SIGCIS,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was looking for a quote I recall reading
in the days of the “science wars,” probably late-1990s, from a
scientist saying something like: “If all the English
professors got sick and we were called in then we would so an
OK job teaching Shakespeare etc. based on what we know and the
inherent triviality of the humanities. Whereas if the physics
professors got sick then the humanities people would be
completely unable to step in, because science is hard.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I tried constructing Google searches and
doing Amazon’s search inside the book on Sokal &
Bricmont’s <i>Fashionable Nonsense</i> and similar targets,
but didn’t locate it. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">NB: I’m just looking for the source here,
not for people eager to reignite the science wars by arguing
for or against the proposition.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
Tom<o:p></o:p></p>
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