Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of… — 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
