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Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at the Arizona State University. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek.

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If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

Science simply forces us to revise what is sensible to accommodate the universe, rather than vice versa.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

The only physicists I know who are billionaires are failed physicists.

Science is empirical: knowing the answer is nothing. Testing your knowledge means everything.

Cosmic Connections" AAI (2009)

Theorists always know the answer. They're just sometimes right.

Cosmic Connections" AAI (2009)

We only see shadows of reality. We shouldn't expect those shadows to behave sensibly.

The other thing people don't realise about science which differentiates it from religion is that, the most exciting thing about being a scientist is not knowing and being wrong. Because that means there is a lot left to learn.

In science you learn ... you're willing to be wrong and also learn to throw out ideas (bad ideas) like yesterday's newspaper — regardless of how precious they are to you.

There's a loophole if you weigh galaxies and clusters because you're weighing the total amount of energy around galaxies. What if there's energy where galaxies aren't? What is where galaxies aren't? Nothing.

Lawrence Krauss: A Universe from Nothing (2013)

... we're here because of an environmental accident if there is a multiverse and if the laws of physics are different in the different regions ...

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.

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