Quote by Richard Powers Download Open image ““Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.”” — Richard Powers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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“Being at rest becomes merely a special case of uniform motion-it is just motion at zero speed.” — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Things which are not in their intended position are restless. Once they are in their ordered position, they are at rest.9” — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Motion is always preferable to stagnation. When you move, things happen. You’re alive Stay still too long, And it´s hard to get moving again.” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.” — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities. — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image