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I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourse

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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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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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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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 was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. – Michael P. Anderson

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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. – Thomas Sowell

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If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos. – Robert Quillen

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The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we cant solve the equations, directly in the abstract. – Stephen Hawking

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A different language is a different vision of life. – Federico Fellini

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