Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence Maxwell Kraussis an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth27 May 1954
CountryUnited States of America
atheist jesus stars
Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
stress reality play
Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.
philosophy fields resentment
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.
reality doe needs
For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.
design purpose illusion
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
believe doe impossible
In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.
faith believe use
As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.
may strange belgians
I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.
ignorance overcoming purpose
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
miracle
Without science, everything is a miracle.
facts shame nonsense
It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.
criticism dangerous immune
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
independent desire purpose
The universe is the way it is , whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires . A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist.
book listening religion
[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?