These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado. But our response to it depends on whether that violence is understood to be terrorism. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
As a physicist, I’ve always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
We should teach kids how to question. Now having said that, of course, to be a productive adult, there are certain skills that are required – reading, writing, and, in the old-fashioned days, we used to say arithmetic. Now we say mathematics. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
Formal logic is mathematics, and there are philosophers like Wittgenstein that are very mathematical, but what they’re really doing is mathematics – it’s not talking about things that have affected computer science; it’s mathematical logic. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
I am in favor of saying, ‘Okay, let’s get teams of educators and experts in certain disciplines to say, ‘What are the basic things that we think are an essential part of an early education for people?” Put them together and create, as well as possible, a set of goals and tools to learn those things. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
Scientists don’t read theology; they don’t read philosophy. It doesn’t make any difference to what they’re doing – for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it’s true. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
