To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
DANIEL DENNETTThere is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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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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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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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 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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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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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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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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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 earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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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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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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