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" It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

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" Donald Trump's candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ability of the president to launch nuclear weapons. When it comes to starting a nuclear war, the president has more freedom than he or she does in, say, ordering the use of torture. "

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" Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting. "

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" For a man with an impressive educational C.V., Ben Carson makes a lot of intellectual missteps. "

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" Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry. "

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" Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" 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

" 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

" We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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

" 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

" 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

" Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. "

Lawrence M. Krauss

" It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption. "

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" Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing. "

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" 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. "

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" One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local school boards have control over educational content. "

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" Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers. "

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" The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation. "

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" Cabinet members may disagree and even resign in protest, but, ultimately, they must obey the order of the Commander-in-Chief. "

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" If I knew what the next big thing was, I'd be doing it now. "

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" To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas. "

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" 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. "

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" Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they're really doing is mathematics - it's not talking about things that have affected computer science; it's mathematical logic. "

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