Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.
Richard PowersAll the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
Richard PowersScience 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 PowersThe thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
Richard Powers