Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.
Daniel DennettA child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
Daniel DennettThe evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.
Daniel DennettThe theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated to theorize about, taken straight. The issue is, rather (since every idealization is a strategic choice), which idealizations might really shed some light... which will just land us... diverting fairy tales.
Daniel Dennett