The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died.
DANIEL DENNETTWhat you can imagine depends on what you know.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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Thanks 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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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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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.
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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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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it’s art or music or clothing or food and all the rest. And I’d like to add a little to that goodness.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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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.
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