"My faith in the expertise of physicists like……" — Daniel Dennett
"My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!"
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101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett
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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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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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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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