Daniel C. Dennett Quotes

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better.

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

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.