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.
I like to travel and connect. - Richard Powers
I like to travel and connect.
- Richard Powers
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open. - Richard Powers
Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.
Reading is the last act of secular prayer. - Richard Powers
Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder. - Richard Powers
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it. - Richard Powers
The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is. - Richard Powers
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states. - Richard Powers
What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me. - Richard Powers
I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. - Richard Powers
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
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