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
religious ideas leader
Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
pollution knows bits
We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.
teaching writing people
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 you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.
facts shame nonsense
It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.
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.
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.
planets our-future species
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
physics poetic stardust
It really is the most poetic thing i know about physics: you are all stardust.
religious battle devil
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?
religious keys roots
The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.
ethos keys common-sense
Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) 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.
mechanic quantum quantum-mechanics
If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.
xenophobia bases
Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
approve argue beings choose human individual might moral rationally subject
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.