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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Thanks James,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>For the benefit of the list:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:windowtext'>“</span>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, the scientific faculty could, at need and with enough released time, patch together a humanities curriculum, to be taught by the scientists themselves. It would have obvious gaps and rough spots, to be sure, and it might with some regularity prove inane but on the whole it would be, we imagine, no worse than operative. What the opposite situation—a walkout by the scientists—would produce as the humanities department tried to cope with the demand for science education, we leave the reader’s imagination…. The notion that scientists and engineers will always accept as axiomatic the competence and indispensability for higher education of humanists and social scientists is altogether too smug.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>My searches for terms like “teach” and “English” and “sick” went just around the words here. In that sense it’s cattier than I remembered – the humanists are walking out in a huff rather than being hit by a plague.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:windowtext'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> Members [mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>James Sumner<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, October 21, 2016 3:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> members@lists.sigcis.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Science wars quote that scientists can teach English but not vice versa<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Hi Tom<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></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..." <o:p></o:p></p><p>Best<br>James<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 21 Oct 16 20:32, Thomas Haigh wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><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><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/">http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org">http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>