Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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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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Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing 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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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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 way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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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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It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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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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