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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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