I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“He always found a simple, easy way to reach the correct answer.” — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark,… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share
“the universe is big and old and, as a result, rare events happen all the time. Go out some night into the woods or desert where you can see stars and hold up your hand to the sky, making a tiny circle between your thumb and forefinger about the size of a dime. Hold it up to a dark patch… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share
Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
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… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. and, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“(For those who like to quote Aristotle’s wisdom when appealing to his “Prime Mover” argument for the existence of God, let us remember that… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
