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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

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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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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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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

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Music is not math. Its science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion. – Bruno Mars

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Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. – John von Neumann

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