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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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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 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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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. – Claude Bernard

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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature. – Arthur Eddington

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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people. – Charles Kettering

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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. – Charles Babbage

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