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Daniel Dennett Quotes: Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
         

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!


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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.



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