What he had done, how he had chosen to spend his energies, really was science. A way of looking, reverencing. And the purpose of all science, like living, which amounts ot the same thing, was not the accumulations of Gnostic power, fixing of formulas for the names of God, stockpiling brutal efficiency, accomplishing the sadistic myth of progress. the purpose of science was to revive and cultivate a perpetual state of wonder. For nothing deserved wonder so much as our capacity to feel it.


The Goldbug Variations, pg. 611

Richard Powers Quotes

What he had done, how he had chosen to spend his energies, really was science. A way of looking, reverencing. And the purpose of all science, like...

What he had done, how he had chosen to spend his energies, really was science. A way of looking, reverencing. And the purpose of all science, like...

What he had done, how he had chosen to spend his energies, really was science. A way of looking, reverencing. And the purpose of all science, like...

What he had done, how he had chosen to spend his energies, really was science. A way of looking, reverencing. And the purpose of all science, like...