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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.

Daniel Dennett

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.
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Hold Life Paint Philosophy
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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Belief Believe God Ground Imagination Science
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Break Down Forever Ignorance Relative Religion
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Dedication Happiness Life Secret Yourself
I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.
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Care Complete Guide Knowledge Limitation Yourself
AI makes philosophy honest.
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Artificial Honesty Intelligence Philosophy
If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
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Better Myself Time Yourself
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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Brain Depend Human Mindset Place Reach
There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?
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Life Polite Religious Wasted Time Yourself
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
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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Evidence Life Science Subject
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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Blind Love Resolution Suffering Tragedy
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
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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Assumption Freedom Lying Philosophy Science

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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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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