Daniel Dennett Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  Daniel Dennett

  Ideas, People, Tradition

• Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.

  Daniel Dennett

  Elements, Loyal, Facts

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.255, Penguin UK

• The traditional view of purpose says it comes from on high, from God, from the Creator. Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Whereas people used to think of meaning coming from on high and being ordained from the top down, now we have Darwin saying, "No, all of this design can happen, all of this purpose can emerge from the bottom up without any direction at all."

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

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

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