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 DENNETTHuman consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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YES we have a soul but it’s made of lots of tiny robots.
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Philosophers’ Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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