Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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You don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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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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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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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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 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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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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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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It’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.
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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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