192 Quotes by Lawrence M. Krauss

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.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and fruitful and which are not.

We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.