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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

Daniel Dennett

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
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Add Complication Easy Problem Science Time
True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Crazy Help Religious Yourself
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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Afraid Cure Fantasy Hope Information Myself
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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Beginning Purpose Reason World
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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Crazy Medical Religious True Yourself
I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.
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Moral Myself People Thinking
The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
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Discover Endorsement Evolution Reason
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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Children Growth Knowledge Need Ourselves Worst
I am a philosopher, not a scientist, and we philosophers are better at questions than answers.
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Better Philosophy Question Science Way Yourself
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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Myself Religious Respond Revive See Thinking Writing
Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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Believe God People Religious
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.
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Natural Religion Social System
You can’t get through seminary and come out believing in God!
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Believe Seminar Yourself
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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Imagination Live Mystery Ourselves Philosophy
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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Better Myself Time Yourself
There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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Believe God Goodness Reason

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