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" 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
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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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" When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is harder to speak in platitudes or rely purely on emotion or fear. Substance, or its lack, becomes harder to mimic or mask, which is why I wish we had a true televised presidential debate on these subjects. "
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" The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. "
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" Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not. "
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" Richard Nixon, famously, conducted his foreign policy according to the 'madman theory': he tried to convince enemy leaders that he was irrational and volatile in an attempt to intimidate them. But this was a potentially useful approach to foreign policy only because it was an act. "
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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? "
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Battle
" 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. "
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You
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Moving
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Criticism
Dangerous
Immune
" 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
" 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. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Intelligent
Time
Design
" 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
" One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Moral
Law
Free
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Understand
School
Control
" 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 biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
World
Change
Last
" For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable. "
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Live
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" When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end up causing them not to happen. Humans are 100-pound bags of water, built to live on Earth. "
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Live
Water
Travel
" 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
" Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Science
Said
People
" 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. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Purpose
Reality
Universe
" 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
" It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity. "
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Nonsense
Impossible
World
" 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. "
Lawrence M. Krauss
Day
Earth
Me