Quotes by Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett

New Zealand writer

Lived from: 1967 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

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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.
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  • I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bernard Beckett?

The two most famous quotes from Bernard Beckett are:

  • "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."
  • "I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science."

When did Bernard Beckett live?

Bernard Beckett is still alive and was born in 1967.