Love is blind, as they say, and because love is blind, it often leads to tragedy: to conflicts in which one love is pitted against another love, and something has to give, with suffering guaranteed in any resolution.
Daniel DennettPeople are afraid of being more ignorant than their childrenโespecially, apparantly, their daughters.
Daniel DennettTo put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant โ inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
Daniel Dennett