Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.”

“If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.”

“The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.”

“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.”

“For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.”

“People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.”