Logo
Quote by Richard Powers
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual

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

Other quotes by Richard Powers

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

Category:
Science
Author
Richard Powers
Read Quote

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

Category:
Imagination
Author
Richard Powers
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Science
category

Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science. – Robert G. Ingersoll

Category:
Science

From my earliest days I had a passion for science. – Joseph Rotblat

Category:
Science

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics. – Richard Dawkins

Category:
Science

Id always been a science fiction enthusiast. – Ivan Reitman

Category:
Science

Random Quotes

My parents long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one. – Olivia Williams

Category:
Marriage

The moment of change is the only poem. – Adrienne Rich

Category:
Poetry

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time. – Howard Dean

Category:
War

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another. – Estelle Morris

Category:
Education