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Evidence Quotes by Sam Harris
- The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified…
- 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…
- A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
- We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
- While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds…
- 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…
- On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We…
More Evidence Quotes
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence. — Lance Armstrong
- Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became… — Michele Bachmann
- The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus
- Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you… — Clive Barker
- The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. — Henry Adams
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the… — John Adams
- There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared… — Gary Bauer
- My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think… — Martha Beck
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. — Ambrose Bierce
- There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings
- Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I… — Tony Blair