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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 27
Astronomer
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Theoretical Physicist
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New York City
New York
Lawrence Krauss
Larry Krauss
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
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[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
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If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.
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It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: you are all stardust.
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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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Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
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There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.
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We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.
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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.
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Without science, everything is a miracle.
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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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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.
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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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