Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
BERNARD BECKETTThe people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.
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Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
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A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name.
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I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
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Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
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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.
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Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.
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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.
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… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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