Daniel Dennett Quotes About Universe

• 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

  Thinking, People, Roles

• Después de Darwin, el papel de Dios pasa de ser el diseñador de todas las criaturas, grandes y pequeñas, a ser el diseñador de las leyes de la naturaleza, a partir de las cuales puede desarrollarse la selección natural, a ser quizá sólo el elegidor de las leyes. En el momento en que el papel de Dios ha disminuido tanto, se convierte un poco en un monarca constitucional, que preside ceremonialmente pero no tiene más trabajo que hacer. Ese es un lugar para Dios, si hace que la gente se sienta cómoda manteniendo a Dios como el que preside el universo. Supongo que eso satisface a muchos.

  Daniel Dennett

  Law, People, Roles

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

• I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.

  Daniel Dennett

  Views, Roles, Needs

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

• We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Ideas, Able

• If I were to give a prize for the single best idea anybody ever had, I'd give it to Darwin for the idea of natural selection - ahead of Newton, ahead of Einstein - because his idea unites the two most disparate features of our universe: the world of purposeless, meaningless matter and motion, particles jostling on the one side, and the world of meaning and purpose, design on the other.

  Daniel Dennett

  Ideas, Two, Giving

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". NOVA-PBS, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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