American - Physicist | May 27, 1954 -
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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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.
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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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When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, ontological definitions of classical philosophers are, in my opinion, sterile.
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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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Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.
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If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
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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.
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Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
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Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.
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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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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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