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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you

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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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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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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Politics
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. – John Charles Polanyi

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When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night. – Marissa Mayer

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If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds – film and science. – Jose Padilha

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Man has to awaken to wonder – and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome

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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. – Jacob Bronowski

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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. – Henry Ward Beecher

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