It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Dogma in science really is humiliating when it is recognized as dogma.” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation;… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is inevitable, therefore, that some approaches to politics, economics, science, and even spirituality and ethics will be objectively better than their… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“The core of science is not controlled experiment or mathetical modeling; it is intellectual honesty. It is time we acknowledge a basic… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything in a person’s life. Are you a scientist? A liberal? A… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science . That will… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern… — Sam Harris Copy Share
There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by… — Sam Harris Copy Share
We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“Your principal concern appears to be that the Creator of the universe will take offense at something people do while naked. This prudery of… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“As manuals for contemplative understanding, the Bible and the Koran are worse than useless. Whatever wisdom can be found in their pages is never… — Sam Harris Copy Share
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“But the reality of consciousness appears irreducible. Only consciousness can know itself—and directly, through first-person experience.” — Sam Harris Copy Share
“Whether or not one likes Huntington's formulation, one thing is clear: the evil that has finally reached our shores is not merely the evil… — Sam Harris Copy Share
Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have… — Sam Harris Copy Share
The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,… — Sam Harris Copy Share
“What could possibly cause billions of human beings to reconsider their religious beliefs? And yet, it is obvious that an utter revolution in our… — Sam Harris Copy Share
