Quote by Richard Powers
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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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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I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities. – Carter Burwell

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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that mans actions are governed by the same tendency. – Rudolf Arnheim

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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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Id always been a science fiction enthusiast. – Ivan Reitman

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