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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.

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Sam Harris
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 9
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We will continue to spill blood in what is, at bottom, a war of ideas
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It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.
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If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
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To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
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The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not cowards, as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
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An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion (e.g., Scientists are smart smart people do not make mistakes therefore, scientists do not make mistakes).
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What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.
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We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation he is unworthy even of man.
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