"The earth has grown a nervous system, and…" — Daniel Dennett

"The earth has grown a nervous system, and it's us."

— Daniel Dennett

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101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett

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True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether…
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't…
The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be…
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has…
The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
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 Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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