"Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of……" — Daniel Dennett
"Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!"
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101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett has 101 quotes on this site.
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True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether…
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A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't…
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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be…
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There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
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Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has…
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
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In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All…
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More Cosmology Quotes
This quote is filed under Cosmology Quotes,
one of 89 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
— John Banville
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For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I…
— Wernher von Braun
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart…
— Janet Morris
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The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very…
— Michio Kaku
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to…
— Emile Durkheim
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included.…
— William James
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Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story…
— Thomas Berry
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I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with…
— Stephen Hawking
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You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I…
— George F. R. Ellis
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
— Alan Guth
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There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as…
— Paul Lockhart
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