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Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
Born: May 27, 1954
People Science Think Universe World You
Related authors: Barry Barish Brian Greene Edward Teller Freeman Dyson J. Robert Oppenheimer Martin H. Fischer Michio Kaku Richard P. Feynman
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate? Lawrence M. Krauss
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There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics. Lawrence M. Krauss
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Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas. Lawrence M. Krauss
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What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc. Lawrence M. Krauss
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If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries. Lawrence M. Krauss
Innovations Were Discoveries Predictable
We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required - reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics. Lawrence M. Krauss
Mathematics Writing Reading Say Kids Having Adult Arithmetic Days Course Said How Question Certain Required Should Skills Teach Used Productive Old-Fashioned Now
The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. Lawrence M. Krauss
Bible Sky Living Sun Inside Jonah Scientific Dubious Still Impossibilities Whale Full Standing
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them. Lawrence M. Krauss
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To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything. Lawrence M. Krauss
Saying Physics Predict Universe String Way String Theory Distinguishing Possible Laws Between Imply Massive Understand May Different Anything Explained Them Then Theory Even Each Why Extent Number Universes
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. Lawrence M. Krauss
Alone Mysteries Build Enough Striking John Unravel Poem Properties Both Inspired Particles Underground Known Scientists Years Huge Romantic Sent Deep Teams Among
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. Lawrence M. Krauss
Religion Whatever Evolutionary Clearly Xenophobia Now Basis
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Lawrence M. Krauss
Daily Nature Science Illusion Design About Purpose Perhaps Most Confront Pervasive Daily Basis Basis
Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief. Lawrence M. Krauss
Obey Disagree Members Must Cabinet Protest Commander-In-Chief Ultimately May Order Even Resign
A snowflake is another beautifully ordered example of what simple, natural meteorological processes can produce. Stars form by gravity, collapsing into spherically ordered structures that can remain in this form only if they release tremendous heat energy into the environment. Lawrence M. Krauss
Natural Simple Example Energy Stars Tremendous Release Collapsing Only Structures Remain Environment Beautifully Another Heat Snowflake Ordered Form Processes Produce Gravity
We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment. Lawrence M. Krauss
Spiritual Science Own Think Universe Our Way Kind Provide Get Meaning Meaning Of Should Fulfillment Lives Necessarily
I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going. Lawrence M. Krauss
Future Science Humanity Better Will Trek Guide More Part Know Am Ultimately Going Certain Help Reason Belief Star Peaceful Star Trek Keeps
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens. Lawrence M. Krauss
Life Three Defense Easily Mutations More Potential Through Almost Outwit Because Robust Built Years Up Than Survived Billion Exposure Mechanisms
Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that an object or a theory does not change when you make some transformation - either rotating or moving it or doing something to the equations. Lawrence M. Krauss
You Change Transformation Members Some Object Something Physicists Make Equations Does Doing Than Different Either Public Moving Mean Means Theory Rotating Symmetry
For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction. Lawrence M. Krauss
You Matter Think Sphere Would Would-Be Object About Direction Given Physicist Could Most Identical Looks Because However Mathematician Any Rotate Symmetrical
Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true. Lawrence M. Krauss
Better Value Judgment Philosophy Worse True Make Read Doing Scientists Any May Difference Theology
On the question of preserving public lands, Trump replies that our elected officials have spent too long rewarding 'special interests,' by which I assume he doesn't mean petroleum companies and the Bundy family. Lawrence M. Krauss
Family Long Assume Too Preserving Our Spent He Question Trump Officials Rewarding Which Public Mean Elected Elected Officials Interests Lands Public Lands Special Companies Special Interests Petroleum
For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps. Lawrence M. Krauss
Man Makes Educational Intellectual Lot Impressive Ben
To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas. Lawrence M. Krauss
Best Me Knowledge Reflect Other Philosophy Area Does
People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested. Lawrence M. Krauss
Science People Try Way Find Know Always Get Interested Them
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it. Lawrence M. Krauss
Time Science Design Our Definition Students Scientist Subject Intelligent Modern Any Them Waste
When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile. Lawrence M. Krauss
Reality Understanding Philosophers Our Definitions Physical Classical Sterile Operational Opinion Real Govern Issues In My Opinion
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