Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

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Lawrence M. Krauss

Profession : Physicist

Birth : May 27, 1954

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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

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

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

A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

Lawrence M. Krauss

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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

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

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

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Lawrence M. Krauss