| While religion offered a divine glimmer of human purpose, humanists made that purpose our own. |
| His lifework shows us that scientists and humanists are in many ways similar kinds of insightful people. |
| In 16th-century intellectual circles, attacks by the humanists Pietro Pomponazzi and Pico della Mirandola challenged the standing of astromancy. |
| We are dealing with secular humanists, and while we are on earth, what is expedient, and convenient, will pass for truth and morality. |
| His are not the opinions that either liberal theologians or secular humanists are accustomed to hearing or willing to accept. |
| His patient-centered teaching and his genteel, bibliophilic scholarship inspired later medical humanists. |
