“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“There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.”
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“What about an amnesiac, who awakes having lost his memories and must learn of his past from scratch? Has he died? How can we be just memories? How does that leave us with enough?”
Bernard Beckett, Lullaby“Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.”
Bernard Beckett, Genesis“... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.”
Bernard Beckett, Genesis“But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine it loses its grip. ”
Bernard Beckett, Genesis“In the end, living is defined by dying.”
Bernard Beckett, Genesis“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”
Bernard Beckett, Genesis“The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread”
they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.