Quote by Richard Powers
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. – Richard Powers

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I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science. – Richard Powers

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The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson

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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. – Percival Lowell

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In imagination, theres no limitation. – Mark Victor Hansen

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

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