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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 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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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. – 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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My dear, descended from the apes! Let us hope it is not true, but if it is, let us pray it will not become generally known. – Bishop of Worcester, wife

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Dont you see whats at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. – Walter Reisch

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The whole history of physics proves that a new discovery is quite likely lurking at the next decimal place. – F.K. Richtmeyer

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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. – Octavia Butler

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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There are two levers for moving men — interest and fear. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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