We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.
DANIEL DENNETTThe 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don’t have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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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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