A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
DANIEL DENNETTWe have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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 are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
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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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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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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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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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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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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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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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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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