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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Sam Harris

I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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String Theory
Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
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Conscious Freedom Ourselves Simplicity Thinking Willing
Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.
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Man Measurement Miracle Mystery Name Worth
The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I think your reasons for being a Christian are.
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Fact Myself Reason Rejection Thinking
Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
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Difficult Endurance Faith Life Reason
Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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Creature Fact Reduce Value
If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
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Argument Evidence Logic Prove Value Yourself
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.
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Argument Difference Evidence Passionate Willing
The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday.
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Current Hold Holy Thinking
It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.
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Book Ordinary Product Value
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn’t. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.
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Honesty Imagination Integrity Intellectual Religion Standard Truth Yourself
You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.
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Control Lost Storm Yourself
Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Atheist Better Conversation Space
We are all prisoners of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Prison Thinking
In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.
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Believe Build Heaven Intellectual Person
How we pay attention to the present moment…determin es the character of our experience and…the quality of our lives.
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Attention Live Moments Ourselves Pay Present Quality

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