Quotessence
Home / Authors / Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss

Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

Physicist

Filter quotes by topic

AllUniverseIfsReligionShouldBeliefKnowsPeopleScienceStardustWay

Famous Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

“The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.”

WayHumansProblemYoungEnergyCausesGrowthReligiousEconomicKeysRootsEnvironmentalRatePopulationTensionEmpoweringAddressesYoung WomenProvenImprovingPublic HealthUnendingFertilityLoomingRoot CauseHuman PopulationEmpower Yourself
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image

“You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

IfsWayKindMatterEnoughBodyTodayJesusStarsForgetEvolutionElementsDiedYour BodyNuclearIronCarbonOxygenThings That MatterStardustFurnacesNitrogen
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image

“In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection. Indeed, they will be receding faster than the speed of light, so detection will be impossible. Future civilizations will discover science and all its laws, and never know about other galaxies or the cosmic background radiation. They will inevitably come to the wrong conclusion about the universe......We live in a special time, the only time, where we can observationally verify that we live in a special time.”

KnowsYearsLightLawUniverseImpossibleSpecialCivilizationSpeedBillionsBackgroundsConclusionFasterCosmicRadiationExpansionGalaxyOnly TimeVerifyDetectionSpeed Of LightSpecial TimesWrong Conclusion
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image

“If we wish to draw philosophical conclusions about our own existence, our significance, and the significance of the universe itself, our conclusions should be based on empirical knowledge. A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa, whether or not we like the implications.”

IfsShouldMindMeanRealityUniverseWishImaginationExistenceDrawsEvidencePhilosophicalVicesConclusionSignificanceConformOpen MindImplicationsVice Versa
Book:A Universe From Nothing
Create image

“Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.”

YearsHas BeensStillsTodayLawCoursesWonderModernCommunicationYears AgoMiracleInstrumentsInventionLaws Of NatureModern Communication
Book:A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Create image

“Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.”

WayYearsHumansLittlesReasonEyeNightUniverseDifficultCommunityDarkSpaceSkyChangedEternalHundredConcernedAppreciateEmptyInfiniteLifetimeSuspectsGalaxyStaticNight SkyTelescopesEmpty SpaceMilky Way
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image

“A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.”

ShouldSelfMomentsPurposeUniverseExistenceHistorySunOur LivesAwarenessPlanetsDespairSelf AwarenessIntentionIntelligenceCornersHumbleCelebrateMeaning Of LifeAweExistentialismCosmicRejoiceDepressingAwe InspiringBrief MomentsRemotenessPurposelessness
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image

“Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.”

ReligionUniverseJesusChristianityAtheismMiracleRegardSacredIslamAtheistJewCreatorBelieverDivinityConsistentRejectsPropositionsJudaismWorldviewQuranInfallibleAtheisticTrue BelieverChristianity And Islam
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image

“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.”

WorldWayMaySeemsDesirePurposeUniverseExistenceIndependentCreatorHarshPointlessWithout God
Book:A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Create image

“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.”

IfsNeedsShouldFirstsLastsUniversePowerfulEventsGoes OnClaimsExtraordinaryRequirementsResortsDeitiesGoverningRazorsPlausibleRecourseMultiverseOccam's Razor
Book:A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Create image

“I hope that every [person] at one point in their life has the opportunity to have something that is at the heart of their being, something so central to their being that if they lose it they won't feel they're human anymore, to be proved wrong because that's the liberation that science provides. The realization that to assume the truth, to assume the answer before you ask the questions leads you nowhere.”

IfsFeelsHumansHeartPersonsAsksOpportunityLosesAnswersAssumingRealizationLiberation
Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
Create image