Biology Quotes by Daniel Dennett

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…

— Daniel Dennett

Churches have given us great treasures such as music and architecture. Whether that pays for the harm they have done is another matter.

— Daniel Dennett

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

— Daniel Dennett

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

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

— Daniel Dennett

Wherever there is a design that is highly successful in a broad range of similar environments, it is apt to emerge again and again,…

— Daniel Dennett

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a…

— Daniel Dennett

Cost is always an object - the second law of thermodynamics sees to that

— Daniel Dennett

In the beginning, there were no reasons; there were only causes. Nothing had a purpose, nothing has so much as a function; there was…

— Daniel Dennett

I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music…

— Daniel Dennett

In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is…

— Daniel Dennett

Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millennia, and it has been another sour sort…

— Daniel Dennett

Consciousness is cerebral celebrity--nothing more and nothing less. Those contents are conscious that persevere, that monopolize resources long enough to achieve certain typical and…

— Daniel Dennett

People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We…

— Daniel Dennett

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry…

— Daniel Dennett