Daniel Dennett Quotes

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

True, you don’t have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.

It’s a no win situation. It’s a mug’s game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

There’s no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) ‘Do you realize you’ve wasted your life?

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

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.