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It is not "scientism" to concede the objectivity and precision of good science, any more than it is history worship to concede that Napoleon did once rule in France and the Holocaust actually happened. Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

— Daniel Dennett Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)

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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important.

Elbow Room (1984)

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

Time and the observer (1995)

Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.

Kinds of Minds (1996)

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

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