10 Sam Harris Quotes on Science

Sam Harris quotes on science

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

4. Nothing is more sacred than the facts.

68. There is no question but that nominally religious scientists like Francis Collins and Kenneth R. Miller are doing lasting harm to our discourse by the accommodations they have made to religious irrationality.

69. A person can be a God-fearing Christian on Sunday and a working scientist come Monday morning, without ever having to account for the partition that seems to have erected itself in his head while he slept.

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.

71. 'Science Must Destroy Religion' (2006)[11]

72. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan.

73. 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

77. Those opposed to therapeutic stem-cell research on religious grounds constitute the biological and ethical equivalent of a flat-earth society.[2]

88. If Jesus does come down out of the clouds like a superhero, Christianity will stand revealed as a science. That will be the science of Christianity.