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Prescriptive Quotes by Steven Pinker
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
- One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
More Prescriptive Quotes
- Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right — Aldous Huxley
- When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker
- There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more… — Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It’s not prescriptive, it’s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give… — Emma Watson
- I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out… — Mike Leigh
- In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the… — Joseph de Maistre
- I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the… — Paul Auster
- Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive;… — Jonathan Sacks