Lawrence Krauss Science Quotes

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

Lawrence M. Krauss

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

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#3. You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.

Bruce Sterling

#4. I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

Zora Neale Hurston

#5. The weak against the strong, Is always in the wrong.

Ivan Krylov

#6. children will be able to tell than the story we have told? Surely that is the greatest contribution of science to civilization: to ensure that the greatest books are not those of the past, but of the future.

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#7. Five hundred years of science have liberated humanity from the shackles of enforced ignorance.

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

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#9. 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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#10. Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.

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#11. 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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#12. People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Anatole France

#13. If I could make it better I would, he says. In some ways it's a stupid, obvious thing to say, but the way he said it, so honest and simple like it's the truest thing there is, makes the tears prick in my eyes. (Before I Fall)

Lauren Oliver

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

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#15. But the truth is, we find time for what's important to us.

Craig Groeschel

#16. More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

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#17. There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

Elise Andrew

#18. For most people, the central questions of existence ultimately come down to transcendental ones: Why is there a universe at all? Why are we here?
Whatever presumptions one might bring to the question "Why?," if we understand the "how" better, "why" will come into sharper focus.

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

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#20. Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

Mark Winne

#21. 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.

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#22. To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity
be it art, music, literature, or science
is the way it enriches our lives.

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#23. When we do R&B midtempos or ballads, there's an Underdogs sound.

Harvey Mason Jr.

#24. Without science, everything is a miracle.

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#25. What science is all about is a process. It's like saying, "Well, is it important for people to know that World War II happened?" Well it's part of what makes us who we are. And so, there's basic bits of science we need to know.

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#26. 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.

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#27. In females, the author has found the application of pure carbolic acid to the clitoris an excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.

Ben Goldacre

#28. It's amazing how people can take just one small part of a person and draw massive conclusions.

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#29. 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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#30. Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Jacques Delille

#31. My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Scott Thompson

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

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#34. 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.

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#35. 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.

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#36. I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested.

David Naughton

#37. Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.

Kent Haruf

#38. You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

Phil Collins

#39. 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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#40. 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.

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