There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Daniel Dennett quote Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science.
Daniel Dennett quote 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.
Daniel Dennett quote I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
Daniel Dennett quote Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel Dennett quote The kindly God who lovingly fashioned each and every one of us and sprinkled the sky with shining stars for our delight - that God is, like Santa Claus, a myth of childhood, not anything a sane, undeluded adult could literally believe in.
Daniel Dennett quote I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth, and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other.
Daniel Dennett quote I can't prove that mushrooms could not be intergalactic spaceships spying on us.
Daniel Dennett quote Biography
American philosopher
