βThe humanities must be divorced from science.β No. Carl Sagan called it βunthinkable for an aspiring physicist not to know Plato, Aristotle, Bach, Shakespeare,β and STEM without the humanities has yielded a Silicon Valley that increasingly canβt read and has no conscience.
A Yale Professor says βit is the humanities that have sinned,β and so they should be separated from the sciences.
βI am confident I can make my most persuasive case for a university of science, engineering, and medicine, if the humanities are not housed under my roof.β