Daniel Dennett Quotes


"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
(Related: People, Being, Right, Universe)

"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
(Related: Science, Concern, Mathematics)

"Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition."
- Daniel Dennett
(Related: People, Idea, Direction, Tradition)