In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. - Daniel Dennett 1 Share Now -
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people. - Daniel Dennett 2 Share Now -
The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern. - Daniel Dennett 3 Share Now -
A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being. - Daniel Dennett 4 Share Now -
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it. - Daniel Dennett 5 Share Now -
We adore babies because they're so cute. And, of course, we are amused by jokes because they are funny. This is all backwards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. - Daniel Dennett 6 Share Now -
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! - Daniel Dennett 7 Share Now -
