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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.
Lawrence M. Krauss
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Lawrence M. Krauss
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: May 27
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New York City
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Lawrence Krauss
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Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
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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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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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In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.
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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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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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The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.
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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 writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?
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You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.
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