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Ursula K(roeber) 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(roeber) Le Guin (4)
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(roeber) 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(roeber) Le Guin
The Direction of the Road (1973)
See also: | Progress (117)
Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
— Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
— Ursula K(roeber) Le Guin
The Disposessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974). Quoted in Gary Westfahl, Science Fiction Quotations (2005), 322.
