Sam Harris

Quotes

• “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 v...”
• “We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come ac...”
• “The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this ...”
• “The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at ...”
• “When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and ...”
• “We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Convers...”
• “In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still bel...”
• “The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what...”
• “What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have d...”
• “We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is un...”
• “What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evalua...”
• “We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.”
• “Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.”
• “The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.”
• “Theology is ignorance with wings.”