We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
DANIEL DENNETTThanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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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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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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