Culture Quotes by Daniel C. Dennett

“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

“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

“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

“Nobody ever became a famous philosopher by being a champion of ecumenical hybridism.”

— Daniel C. Dennett

“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

“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

“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

“prosaic, pedestrian example, but everything”

— Daniel C. Dennett

“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

“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

“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

“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