"Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the……" — Daniel Dennett
"Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, .. would put such a clumsy arrangement in a camcorder, and this is just one of the hundreds of accidents frozen in evolutionary history that confirm the mindlessness of the historical process."
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Daniel Dennett
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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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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
— Dave Barry
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No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at…
— Joe Barton
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
— Renata Adler
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
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