You don’t get anything worth getting, by pretending to know things you don’t know.
SAM HARRISScience is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don’t have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.
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Islam, at the moment, is the motherlode of bad ideas.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.
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Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
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The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.
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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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An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.
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It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
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It’s simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
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George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.
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Theology is ignorance with wings.
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