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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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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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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – Richard Powers

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Libraries

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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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