Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. Lawrence M. Krauss More Quotes by Lawrence M. Krauss More Quotes From Lawrence M. Krauss Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them. Lawrence M. Krauss scalesemptyspace 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 Lawrence M. Krauss scientific-methodpersistencecreativity 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. Lawrence M. Krauss communicationlawyears You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious. Lawrence M. Krauss acceptingexcitingreality There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur. Lawrence M. Krauss forbiddenmaximsstudents Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights. Lawrence M. Krauss thresholdcomfortmean Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise. Lawrence M. Krauss eyedarknight You are all stardust. Lawrence M. Krauss atheistmotivationalinspirational It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust. Lawrence M. Krauss stardustpoeticphysics I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won't feel they're human anymore, to be proved wrong because that's the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere. Lawrence M. Krauss realizationheartopportunity For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it. Lawrence M. Krauss herdsimpactachieve People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested. Lawrence M. Krauss tryingpeopleway 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. Lawrence M. Krauss democracylibertycommunity We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical. Lawrence M. Krauss relyshouldexperts The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. Lawrence M. Krauss atheismwayreligion 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. Lawrence M. Krauss importantwarpeople 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. Lawrence M. Krauss teachingwritingpeople Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No". Lawrence M. Krauss moralitybelievepeople Now, since the time of Newton there had been a debate about whether light was a wave - that is, a traveling disturbance in some background medium - or a particle, which travels regardless of the presence of a background medium. The observation of Maxwell that electromagnetic waves must exist and that their speed was identical to that of light ended the debate: light was an electromagnetic wave. Lawrence M. Krauss debatespeedlight The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional. Lawrence M. Krauss fitgoalmay
