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 John Von Neumann quotes 
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Suggest Revision: The most vitally characteristic fact about mathematics is, in my opinion, its quite peculiar relationship to the natural sciences, or more generally, to any science which interprets experience on a higher than purely descriptive level.
 
 Kitty Pryde quotes 
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Suggest Revision: With books thicker than Hemingway. Descriptive and any way. Kids hate our lust, but I don't care what the lemmings say.
 
 Phillip Johnson-Laird quotes 
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Suggest Revision: A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.
 
 Eric Gill quotes 
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Suggest Revision: Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
 
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting. Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen
 Terry Pratchett quotes 
 Legends quotes 
Suggest Revision: The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honesty to reporting. Thus, if a legend told of a notable hero that all men spoke of his prowess any bard who valued his life would hastily add except for a couple of people in his home village who thought he was a loony, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him. Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like: His mighty steed was fast as the wind, on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three, any loose talk about a beloved having a face that could launch a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed own a very large seaport. Patrician Olaf II was eventually killed during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb The Pen
 
 Peter Singer quotes 
 Descriptive quotes 
Suggest Revision: At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places
 
 Wilhelm Wundt quotes 
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Suggest Revision: The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.
 
 Douglas Wood quotes 
 Descriptive quotes 
Suggest Revision: Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.
 
 Camryn Manheim quotes 
 Descriptive quotes 
Suggest Revision: I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
 
 Camryn Manheim quotes 
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Suggest Revision: So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
 
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