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Ursula K. Le Guin
(21 Oct 1929 - )
American author whose science fiction works include Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and Malafrena (1979).
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Science Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin (6 quotes)
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969, 1976), 220.
It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, 'My God what have I done?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Stalin in Soul (1973). Quoted in Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations (2005), 322.
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Direction of the Road (1973)
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The Disposessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). Quoted in Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations (2005), 322.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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