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....

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

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

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced....

This 'web of discourses' as Robyn called it...is as much a biological product as any of the other constructions....

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

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

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,....