Sam Harris Quotes About Universe

• 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 thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Rain, Believe

  Sam Harris (2005). "El fin de la fe: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason", p.72, W. W. Norton & Company

• Dígale a un cristiano devoto que su mujer le engaña, o que el yogur helado puede hacer invisible a un hombre, y es probable que exija tantas pruebas como cualquier otro, y que sólo se persuada en la medida en que usted se las dé. Dígale que el libro que guarda junto a su cama fue escrito por una deidad invisible que le castigará con fuego durante toda la eternidad si no acepta todas sus increíbles afirmaciones sobre el universo, y parece que no necesita ninguna prueba.

  Sam Harris

  Cristiano, Infiel, Ateo

• Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

  Sam Harris

  Ciencia, Hombres, Nombres

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.227, W. W. Norton & Company

• Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

  Sam Harris

  Mind, Suffering, Facts

  Sam Harris (2011). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

• I think when you say to someone You are fool not to believe in evolution or a fool to believe the universe is 6000 years old. I think that gets translated as You are a fool to think that your daughter who died in a car accident is really in heaven with god.

  Sam Harris

  Daughter, Believe, Thinking

• As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.

  Sam Harris

  Creating, Design, Promise

• 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.

  Sam Harris

  Different Universes, Done, Wanted

  Sam Harris (2012). “Free Will”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Book, People

  "Science Must Destroy Religion" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2006.

• 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.

  Sam Harris

  Ocean, Mean, Self

  "On Spiritual Truths" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

• Es bastante más noble ayudar a la gente simplemente porque te preocupa su sufrimiento que ayudarla porque crees que el Creador del Universo quiere que lo hagas, o te recompensará por hacerlo, o te castigará por no hacerlo. El problema de este vínculo entre religión y moral es que da a la gente malas razones para ayudar a otros seres humanos cuando existen buenas razones.

  Sam Harris

  Ayudar, Pensar, Personas

  "Más allá de la creencia: Simposio "Ciencia, religión, razón y supervivencia", noviembre de 2006.

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