“atheists and agnostics can have sacred values, values that are simply not up for re-evaluation at all. I have sacred” — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“It is not “scientism” to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me.… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever became a famous philosopher by being a champion of ecumenical hybridism.” — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the rare, smaller… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Is this Tree of Life a God one could worship? Pray to? Fear? Probably not. But it did make the ivy twine and the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions to be found in the… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“We can now expose perhaps the most common misunderstanding of Darwinism: the idea that Darwin showed that evolution by natural selection is a procedure… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“Carpenters don’t make their saws and hammers, tailors don’t make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don’t make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
“As I have often noted, a wagon with spoked wheels doesn’t just carry grain or freight from place to place; it carries the brilliant… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share Image
![“I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?” quote by Daniel C. Dennett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33a/daniel-c-dennett-17655_apologetics_i-think-we-should-stop-treating-god-work_310612.jpg)
