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From Quotes by 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 or…
- The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.
- The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you…
- 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…
- Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
- People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are…
- Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have…
- Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.…
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