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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – 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 really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers

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Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. – Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero

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Youve got to love libraries. Youve got to love books. Youve got to love poetry. Youve got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it. – Ray Bradbury

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Libraries

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894

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