I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
DANIEL DENNETT
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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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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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What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.
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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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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 don’t get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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The best thing about saying thank goodness in place of thank God this that here really are lots of ways of repaying your debt of goodness – by setting to create more of it, for the benefit of those to come.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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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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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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I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.
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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about – about what the issues really are – and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
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