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Daniel Dennett Quotes

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American Philosopher March 28, 1942

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To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. Daniel Dennett
I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe? the gods and other spirits? don't exist. These people are mistaken, and you know it as well as I do. It is possible for highly intelligent people to have a very useful but mistaken theory, and we don't have to pretend otherwise in order to show respect for these people and their ways. Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett quote: "Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable..."
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Daniel Dennett
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think? just ask my critics. Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett quote: "People are afraid of being more ignorant than their..."
People are afraid of being more ignorant than their childrenespecially, apparantly, their daughters. Daniel Dennett
I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. Daniel Dennett

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