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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Ability Belief Confidence Curiosity Differences Face Fear Fragile Future Human Human Spirit Optimism Problems Resolved Solved Spirit Superstition Type Uncertainty

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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Any Cannot Exist Host Like Parasite Thought Without

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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Cause Effect Need Simple Superstition Terms View World

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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.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Abstraction Bit Little Little Bit Modelling More Predicting Really Science Technical Than Think Way Wonderful Wonderful Way I Think

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I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Ability Access Any Anything Belief Beyond Evidence Good Great Humans Knows Material Material World Me Other Particular See Take Than Who World Would

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I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, it's an evolved machine that we carry with us.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Absolutely Brain Carry Evolved Function Idea Machine Modern Our Read Respond See Us Way Well Works World

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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Carry Century Different Enlightenment God Great Limited Machinery Men Mostly Our Our World Plan Quest Scientists Thought Uncover Very Were Who World 19Th Century

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There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Attention Fascination Fear Our

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The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Against Alliance Brain Build Defend Fights Finds Forms Furniture Idea Ideas Liking Make More New Other Outside Picks Residence Structures Themselves

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The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

~Bernard Beckett

Topics: Claiming Goes Idea Mind New Successful Territory Travels

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Biography

Nationality: New Zealander

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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