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.
war people important
What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know.
experts should rely
We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.
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A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.
communication years law
Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
independent understanding bangs
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.
students forbidden maxims
There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
truth comfort belief
The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.
understanding important exploration
Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.
team years fiction
Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.
communication space satellites
Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.
planets our-future species
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
law interesting mechanic
Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.
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Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute to the power of the scientific method and the creativity and persistence of humans who want to understand it.