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
depressing self despair
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.
religious ideas leader
Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
understanding evidence lack-of-understanding
The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.
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.
criticism dangerous immune
Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
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.
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.
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.
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.