There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
DANIEL DENNETTWe 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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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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Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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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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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be “informavores”, epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.
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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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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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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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