Sam Harris Quotes

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I'm an atheist.

I'm an atheist.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

I became an atheist because, as a graduate student studying quantum physics, life seemed to be reducible to second-order differential equations. Mathematics, chemistry and physics had it all. And I didn't see any need to go beyond that.

As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it became difficult for me to sustain the belief structure in the supernatural.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

I'm not a religious person at all.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.

I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

We are all atheists.

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me purely factitious, fabricated on the one hand by short-sighted religious people, who confound ... theology with religion; and on the other by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension.

Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.