Quote by Richard Powers
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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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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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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Imagination
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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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Todays recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago. – Tony Visconti

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Science

Id always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film. – Gil Gerard

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Science

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real. – Phillip E. Johnson

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Science

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley

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Science

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