Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

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

The universe does not care what we want.

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

The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

90% of the mass in your body comes from empty space.

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.

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.

The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

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.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

You are all stardust.

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.

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

The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

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.

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.

At the heart of quantum mechanics is a rule that sometimes governs politicians or CEOs-as long as no one is watching, anything goes.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.

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.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

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?

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

The real thing that physics tell us about the universe is that it's big, rare event happens all the time — including life — and that doesn't mean it's special.

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

The ultimate goal of physicists is to arrive at an equation that explains everything and could fit on a t-shirt. That may happen but the t-shirt would have to be 10-dimensional.