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" If I knew what the next big thing was, I'd be doing it now. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
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" 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
" Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Laws
Time
Nothing
" 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
" 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
" The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
You
Information
Communication
" Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Disagree
Protest
Order
" The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Environmental
Growth
Health
" The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Imagination
Story
Interesting
" 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
" For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Lot
Man
Ben
" On the question of information security, he claims that, in a Trump Administration, the U.S. government will not spy on its own citizens. If true, this would represent a turn away from the strong language that he has used about identifying terrorists on our soil. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Security
Language
Government
" The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Whale
Bible
Living
" Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Accountable
Held
Ideas
" 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
" The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
World
Change
Last
" Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Now
Whatever
Religion
" 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
" Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Three
Life
More
" 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
" Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Gun
Shooting
Laws
" Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Criticism
Dangerous
Immune
" Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that an object or a theory does not change when you make some transformation - either rotating or moving it or doing something to the equations. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
You
Transformation
Moving
" For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Direction
Think
Looks
" What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell sense from nonsense. These tools include the scientific method, skeptical questioning, empirical evidence, verifying sources, etc. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Evidence
Tell
People
" A snowflake is another beautifully ordered example of what simple, natural meteorological processes can produce. Stars form by gravity, collapsing into spherically ordered structures that can remain in this form only if they release tremendous heat energy into the environment. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Stars
Energy
Environment
" No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Path
Experience
Baseball
" For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Creator
Live
May
" 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
" 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
" The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Earth
Universe
Sun