Maybe "Fiziki" aren't the opposite of humanists. Maybe we are just humanists who are too stubborn to admit that we are in love with the grammar of the universe rather than the vocabulary of the soul.
For those of us in the post-Soviet space, the word fiziki carries a specific weight. In the 60s and 70s, being a fizik was the ticket out. It was pragmatic, heroic, and safe. You didn't go to university to "find yourself." You went to MIPT (the "Phystech") to build reactors, design lasers, or crack quantum field theory. fiziki
Or have we all just become glorified engineers? User "Quantum_Volodya": "You had me at Landau, lost me at 'failed lyricists.' The beauty of fiziki is that it doesn't care about your feelings. The electron doesn't read poetry. The awe is in the cold, hard, repeatable truth. Stop romanticizing it and go solve the Lagrangian." Maybe "Fiziki" aren't the opposite of humanists