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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.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 27
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Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.
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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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A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.
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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.
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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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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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There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.
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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.
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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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The universe is the way it is , whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires . A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist.
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Without science, everything is a miracle.
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The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.
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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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Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
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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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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.
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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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