The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.
DANIEL DENNETTThe 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.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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What you can imagine depends on what you know.
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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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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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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I don’t think there is any religious revival. I think what we are hearing, the furor, is merely the hysterical response of the churches the handwriting on the wall that they are seeing.
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Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn’t kept pace.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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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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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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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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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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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
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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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