The perpetrators of the Inquisition – the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions – were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God – popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
SAM HARRISI’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
More Sam Harris Quotes
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Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
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I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
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We must continually remind ourselves that there is a difference between what is natural and what is actually good for us.
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We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself.
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To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
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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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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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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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Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.
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Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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Theology is ignorance with wings.
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Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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I’m the Ted Bundy of string theory.
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