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Very Quotes by Sam Harris
- Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time…
- The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the…
- Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our…
- If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are…
- It is also true that the less competent a person is in a given domain, the more he will tend to overestimate his abilities. This…
- The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.
- As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the…
- 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 to…
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