Bernard Beckett quotes

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. (Bernard Beckett)
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
Bernard Beckett
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us.
Bernard Beckett
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
Bernard Beckett
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
Bernard Beckett
I write with teenagers in mind.
Bernard Beckett
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
The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.
Bernard Beckett
There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
Bernard Beckett
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
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)
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