9 Quotes by Lawrence Krauss

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

It's hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some hidden intelligence created a universe of more than a hundred billion galaxies, each containing more than a hundred billion stars, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of violent tribal groups before disappearing again.

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

What I really hope to do is leave you dizzy by the end of this.

What's ... important about this case is that it validates the separation of church and state. Even more important, it's a question of teaching good science.

It's a difficult thing to do and I felt prepared to do it. But some people think you are embarrassing the university by doing it. It is traumatic and I realize that when I did it that just having this discussion would be traumatic and embarrassing.

It's the best thing to do. It's unfortunate that this had to happen. Now, we can move forward to the process of healing and address the problems that face the university.

In science there often aren't two sides. You know, gravity works.

The Dover trial changes the national profile a lot?.