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
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The universe does not care what we want.
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90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.
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There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.
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The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.
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[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
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It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption.
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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.
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I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.
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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.
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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.
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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 there's 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.
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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.
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To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.
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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.