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.
DANIEL DENNETTGo 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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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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To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
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