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.
DANIEL DENNETTThe problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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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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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
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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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You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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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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Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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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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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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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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