All Sam Harris Quotes
- It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail. Admitted
- Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the… Admit
- Every one of the world's "great" religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the Koran get almost… Almost Every
- Tell a devout Christian that his wife is cheating on him, or that frozen yogurt can make a man invisible, and he is likely to… Accept
- Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance. Atheism
- The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the… All
- People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should… Awaits
- Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried. Assure
- The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they… Acknowledged
- Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything… All
- Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love Guardian
- The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by… Argument
- Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary… Abortion
- Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded… Anything Anything
- What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero. Absolutely
- Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible… Accessible
- I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory. Bundy
- What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and… Asking
- The problem I want to talk to you about tonight is the problem of belief. What does it mean to believe? We use this word… All
- It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting… Atheism