Richard Powers Quotes

I'm very interested in science.

Science is organized knowledge.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

I don't know anything about science.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

The term Science should not be given to anything but the aggregate of the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

Many of my friends are scientists.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.