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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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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. – 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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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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But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. – Michael Shermer

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Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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In science there is only physics all the rest is stamp collecting. – Lord Kelvin

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What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it. – Kyle Chandler

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