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Lawrence M. Krauss Biography

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project.

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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.

Religious, Roots, Keys, Unending, Human

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.

Everything, Fit, Goal, Happen, May, Ultimate

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.

Light, Debate, Speed, Observation, Newton, Waves

Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

Brief, Celebrate, Moment, Moments, Sun

As a scientist, I don't believe anything. Science shouldn't use the word belief. There are things more likely and less likely. Science can say nothing with absolute certainty.

Belief, Believe, Faith, Nothing, Use

[The writers of the holy books] did not even know the earth revolves around the sun. Why are we listening?

Book, Books, Earth, Listening, Religion, Revolves

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

Battle, Deny, Devil, Policy, Public, Religious

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.

Believe, Doe, Impossible, Make

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

I Can, Live, Prove, Universe

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

Atheism, Kids, Learn, Lose, Religion

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

Real, Imagination, Interesting, Fairy, Describe

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.

Abortion, Candidates, Evangelical, Favor, Favors, Gay

We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe. . . we are completely irrelevant.

Completely, Constitute, Knows, Percent, Pollution, See

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.

Conclusion, Expansion, Point, Progressed, Years

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.

Know, People, Science, Trying, Way

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

Being True, Enough, Proving, Stress

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.

Carbon, Created, Forget, Jesus, Oxygen, Stars

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.

Conform, Forcing, Mean, Open, Philosophical, Reality

Our modern conception of the universe is so foreign to what even scientists generally believed a mere century ago that it is a tribute to the power of the scientific method and the creativity and persistence of humans who want to understand it.

Century, Conception, Creativity, Persistence, Scientific, Want

Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.

Experiment, Fails, Newspaper, Reality, Stress, Yesterday

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