You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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 secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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I’m the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.
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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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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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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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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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