As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
DANIEL DENNETTIt’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
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In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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