Quote #2

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

More from Sam Harris

  1. Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.[2]
  2. Nothing is more sacred than the facts.
  3. It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your t…
  4. It is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious tra…
  5. Most religions have merely canonized a few products of ancient ignorance and derangement and passed them down to us as though they were pri…
  6. The danger of religious faith is that it allows otherwise normal human beings to reap the fruits of madness and consider them holy.[2]
  7. A belief is a lever that, once pulled, moves almost everything else in a person's life.[2]
  8. Beliefs are scarcely more private than actions are, for every belief is a fount of action in potentia.[2]

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