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Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive (Prescriptive Quotes)
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive (Prescriptive Quotes)
We may experience an absolute positive change and do the undone if we shift our thoughts from descriptive thinking to prescriptive thinking (Prescriptive Quotes)
Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes (Prescriptive Quotes)
In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life (Prescriptive Quotes)
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth (Prescriptive Quotes)
I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films (Prescriptive Quotes)
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 a cat show have to do with mammalian biology (Prescriptive Quotes)
Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover (Prescriptive Quotes)
You may think things didn’t change much after the 60s ‘revolution’ - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded. (Prescriptive Quotes)
Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools. (Prescriptive Quotes)
Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn’t be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say. (Prescriptive Quotes)
I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films. (Prescriptive Quotes)