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Science Quotes by Daniel Dennett
- If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience…
- The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
- Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
- If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of…
- If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have…
- Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.
- There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.
More Science Quotes
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach