Pynchon never said that. Never will. I know that. Because I'm pompous and don't mind speaking for people I don't know.

[Joseph S. Barrera III]

So, um, why do you hate science so much?

I grew up a smart kid and learned about science and loved it without any 
a prior knowledge of power structures or anything. I just loved the 
concept of understanding the very fundamentals of things. I checked out 
books about atoms in grade school. I learned about quarks (still just a 
theory) when in junior high school -- also taught myself calculus that 
year. None of this was motivated by any plan to subjugate people, or be 
enslaved, or whatever. Later in junior high school I discovered 
computers (initially an IMSAI 8080 running BASIC at 1 MHz) and that 
detoured me into computer science, but I've always kept an interest in 
physics. I've learned basic quantum mechanics and I'm trying to teach 
myself quantum field theory. None of this seems very associated with 
power. Any physicist interested in power has gone to Wall Street and 
translated their math smarts into complicated trading algorithms. The 
folks left behind are just interested in trying to understand the laws 
underlying the laws that underlie the laws of what we understand as 
physics. Modern physics knowledge doesn't even translate into political 
or military power! That was all discovered by 1930. There will, I 
promise you, never be a "Higgs Bomb".

So of all the folks you could attack, why scientists? Why not 
kindergarten teachers or geriatric nurses?

- Joe