Quotes by : Daniel C. Dennett

Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or....

One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis....

In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts....

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is....

Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes....

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than....

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and,....

I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize....

Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged....

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