Infinite Regress Quotes

“Some people would much prefer the infinite regress of mysteries, apparently, but in this day and age the cost is prohibitive: you have to get yourself deceived. You can either deceive yourself or let others do the dirty work, but there is no intellectually defensible way of rebuilding the mighty barriers to comprehension that Darwin smashed. (p.25)”
― Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

“Create intellectual pornography. Make the accelerators bigger, the immensities more immense, the little things more little.”
― Colin Bennett, The entertainment bomb