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" I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Done
Research
Always
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" Local order in parts of the universe is always possible at the expense of heat and disorder dissipated to the external environment. The human body is one example: we take in energy from our environment to build up complex molecules that help power our bodies, and, in doing so, we release heat to the world around us. "
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Doing
" On the question of preserving public lands, Trump replies that our elected officials have spent too long rewarding 'special interests,' by which I assume he doesn't mean petroleum companies and the Bundy family. "
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" By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it. "
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Design
" 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
You
Writing
Say
" I was most eager to see how Trump would respond to the climate-change question. "
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Respond
Question
Eager
" Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Judaism
Science
Only
" Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Satellites
Space
Industry
" Either Trump only talks to those who play up to his delusion, or he simply doesn't listen to those who might burst his bubble. Either way, that is a cause for worry. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Play
Only
Listen
" Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Accountable
Held
Ideas
" I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peaceful future, but I am certain that this belief is part of what keeps the 'Star Trek' fandom going. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Peaceful
Future
Help
" If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Predictable
Discoveries
Were
" Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Criticism
Dangerous
Immune
" For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, is his unique combination of ignorance about the world, convolved with ignorance about himself. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Hatred
Ignorance
Me
" There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
You
Think
Mathematics
" To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Best
Reflect
Philosophy
" 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
Space
Short
Empty
" We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Eyes
Future
Society
" Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Alone
Enough
Deep
" Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Doing
True
Philosophy
" Parents, of course, have concerns and 'say,' but they don't have the right to shield their children from knowledge. That is not a right, any more than they have the right to shield their children from healthcare or medicine. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Children
Parents
Medicine
" If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Own
Our
Will
" I used to read a lot of science fiction when I was younger. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Science Fiction
Younger
Used
" As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Me
Found
Ordinary
" When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate? "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Devil
Debate
Battle
" Symmetries are the playing field on which the physical world works and which determine the rules of the game. The symmetries of nature determine for us things that remain constant, that can't be changed. Those are the guideposts in physics, the quantities like energy and momentum. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Energy
Game
Like
" For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
You
Reality
Universe
" I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Science
Be True
True
" 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
Power
Democracy
Religion
" I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Universe
Without
God
" A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Gay
Abortion
Ignore