Lawrence M. Krauss

Quotes

• “A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspirin...”
• “No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena w...”
• “The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions whil...”
• “Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to h...”
• “The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed informati...”
• “For most people, the central questions of existence ultimately come down to transcendental ones: Why is there a universe...”
• “It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reacti...”
• “If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, in some sense it make...”
• “I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am ce...”
• “When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a bat...”
• “The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interest...”
• “Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should de...”
• “Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short t...”
• “Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our underst...”
• “The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a...”
• “By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subjec...”
• “Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.”
• “Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.”