Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Samuel R. DelanyNow for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.
Samuel R. DelanyThe problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.
Samuel R. DelanyScience fiction isnโt just thinking about the world out there. Itโs also thinking about how that world might beโa particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if theyโre going to change the world we live in, theyโand all of usโhave to be able to think about a world that works differently.
Samuel R. Delany