There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
DANIEL DENNETTReligions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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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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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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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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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them – if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.
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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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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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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species – us.
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