A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
DANIEL DENNETTThe 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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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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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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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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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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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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AI makes philosophy honest.
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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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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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