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Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Daniel Dennett

Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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Contribution Destination Philosophy Quite Recognition Talk
The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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Care Effort Examination Life Meaning Worth
YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Build Ourselves Robot Soul
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Dreams Imagination Knowledge Yourself
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Dangerous Force Fundamental Planet
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Effect Mindset Science
What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
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Imagination Live Mystery Ourselves Philosophy
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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Condition Freedom Human Mistake Objection Oneself
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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Agency Animal Culture Moral See Thinking
There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
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Assumption Freedom Lying Philosophy Science
We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Admit Atheist President
The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Earth Growth Nervous Ourselves
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
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Evidence Life Science Subject
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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Better Myself Time Yourself

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don’t imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

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