"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive." — Ursula K. Le Guin

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• The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of… — Louise Brooks
• The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the… — Karl Landsteiner
• Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the… — Claude Bernard
• For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces… — Bridget Riley
• Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. — Unknown Author
• I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word — Camryn Manheim
• We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional… — Rivka Galchen
• Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.… — Akira Kurosawa
• Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so.… — Eric Gill
• The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated… — Edmund Husserl
• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C.S. Lewis
• The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods… — Jacque Fresco

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