Sam Harris
Sam Harris
Samuel Benjamin "Sam" Harrisis an American author, philosopher, and neuroscientist. He is the co-founder and chief executive of Project Reason, a non-profit organization that promotes science and secularism, and host of the podcast Waking Up with Sam Harris. His book The End of Faith, a critique of organized religion, appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list for 33 weeks and also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005. Letter to a Christian Nationwas a response...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actor
Date of Birth4 June 1961
CountryUnited States of America
You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
I'm the Ted Bundy of string theory.
The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.
And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.
Countries with high levels of atheism are . . . the most charitable both in terms of the percentage of their wealth they devote to social welfare programs and the percentage they give in aid to the developing world.
This is how you play tennis without the net
To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.
We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.