The way evolution always discovers reasons is by retroactive endorsement.
DANIEL DENNETTTo put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
More Daniel Dennett Quotes
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Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn’t admit it.
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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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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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There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.
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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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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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No matter how smart you are, you’re smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.
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True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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Most people in the West who say they believe in God actually believe in belief in God.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
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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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There are no good reasons to believe in god.
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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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