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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.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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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.

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