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