"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive." — Ursula K. Le Guin
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve…
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is…
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it…
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite…
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want…
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More Descriptive Quotes
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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
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The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the…
— Karl Landsteiner
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the…
— Claude Bernard
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For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces, an event rather than an appearance. These forces…
— Bridget Riley
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Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
— Unknown Author
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word
— Camryn Manheim
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We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional…
— Rivka Galchen
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages.…
— Akira Kurosawa
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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so.…
— Eric Gill
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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated…
— Edmund Husserl
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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
— C.S. Lewis
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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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