Richard Powers Quotes & Sayings

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33 most famous Richard Powers quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“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 Quotes
“I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.”
“A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.”
Richard Powers Quotes
“Reading is the last act of secular prayer.”
Richard Powers Quotes
“My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.”
Richard Powers Quotes
“We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.”
Richard Powers Quotes
“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 Quotes
“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 Quotes
“All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.”
“We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.”

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