Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.
DANIEL DENNETT
Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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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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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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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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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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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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Cost is always an object – the second law of thermodynamics sees to that.
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In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was no teleology in the world at all.
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I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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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.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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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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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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Words are memes that can be pronounced.
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