In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
“Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.”
“There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.”