“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we tell others - and ourselves - about who we are.” — 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
“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
“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
“Nobody ever became a famous philosopher by being a champion of ecumenical hybridism.” — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share
“There is a species of primate in South America more gregarious than most other mammals, with a curious behavior.The members of this species often… — Daniel C. Dennett Copy Share
“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
