Sam Harris, Ph.D. (born 1967)
Neuroscientist, Author, and Outspoken Atheist

 . . . truth has nothing, in principle, to do with consensus: one person can be right, and everyone else can be wrong. Consensus is a guide to discovering what is going on in the world, but that is all that it is. Its presence or absence in no way constrains what may or may not be true.