The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

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.

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

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. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.