5 Sam Harris Quotes on Evidence

Sam Harris quotes on evidence

4. Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

13. We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or history, or free to mean whatever we want when using words like 'poison' or 'north' or 'zero.'[2]

14. Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.[2]

19. We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it.[2]

70. The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.