Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
DANIEL DENNETTAs 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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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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The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
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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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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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Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.
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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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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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I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
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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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I am inclined to think that nothing could matter more than what people love. At any rate, I can think of no value that I would place higher. I would not want to live in a world without love.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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