Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

The Real Thing That Physics Tell Us About The Universe Is That It's Big, Rare Event Happens All The Time — Including Life — And That Doesn't Mean It's Special.

In 5 Billion Years, The Expansion Of The Universe Will Have Progressed To The Point Where All Other Galaxies Will Have Receded Beyond Detection.

If Our Species Is To Survive, Our Future Will Probably Require Outposts Beyond Our Own Planet.

For Many, To Live In A Universe That May Have No Purpose, And No Creator, Is Unthinkable.

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.

Now, Since The Time Of Newton There Had Been A Debate About Whether Light Was A Wave - That Is, A Traveling Disturbance In Some Background Medium - Or A Particle, Which Travels Regardless Of The Presence Of A Background Medium. The Observation Of Maxwell That Electromagnetic Waves Must Exist And That Their Speed Was Identical To That Of Light Ended The Debate: Light Was An Electromagnetic Wave.

Empirical Explorations Ultimately Change Our Understanding Of Which Questions Are Important And Fruitful And Which Are Not.

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.

Occam's Razor Suggests That, If Some Event Is Physically Plausible, We Don't Need Recourse To More Extraordinary Claims For Its Being. Surely The Requirement Of An All-powerful Deity Who Somehow Exists Outside Of Our Universe, Or Multiverse, While At The Same Time Governing What Goes On Inside It, Is One Such Claim. It Should Thus Be A Claim Of Last, Rather Than First, Resort.

We Live At A Very Special Time . . . The Only Time When We Can Observationally Verify That We Live At A Very Special Time!

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.

Neutrinos Alone, Among All The Known Particles, Have Ethereal Properties That Are Striking And Romantic Enough Both To Have Inspired A Poem By John Updike And To Have Sent Teams Of Scientists Deep Underground For 50 Years To Build Huge Science-fiction-like Contraptions To Unravel Their Mysteries.