In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

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

  4. Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I don’t know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in Corriere della Sera when it was published...

  5. The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

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