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"I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.“
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"My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible."
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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."
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"I think that if the novel's 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."
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"I think that if the novel's 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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"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."
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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
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"We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space."
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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