"Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is……" — 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."
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56 Quotes by Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss has 56 quotes on this site.
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You are all stardust.
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Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism,…
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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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Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
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The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.
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The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief…
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As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less…
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The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty…
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Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that…
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In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but…
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There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is…
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Occam's razor suggests that, if some event is physically plausible, we don't need recourse to more extraordinary claims for its…
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More Antithetical Quotes
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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are…
— John Bolton
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due…
— William J. Brennan
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The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little,…
— Susan Sontag
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The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity…
— Lord Byron
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Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional…
— Rick Santorum
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Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose…
— Bill Maher
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to…
— Unknown Author
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The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began -…
— Carl Sagan
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