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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

Bernard Beckett

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

– Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett

I like the concept of teenagers and philosophy.

– Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett

I write with teenagers in mind.

– Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett

I didn’t study science beyond high school level, but I’d been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre – the Allan Wilson Centre – where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.

– Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett

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

– Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett

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

– Bernard Beckett

Bernard Beckett

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

Bernard Beckett

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

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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

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

Bernard Beckett

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

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