Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik were motivated by a terroristic ideology, the focus of the conversation was on gun laws. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
Donald Trump called for the closing of borders to Muslims; John McCain said, in response to the President’s address on the San Bernardino shooting, that ‘this is the war of our time.’ As that shooting shows, we react to terrorism with far more intensity than we do to an ordinary crime. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sphere, because it looks identical no matter what you do to it, however you rotate it in any given direction. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
The biggest conceptual change over the last 100 years in the way physicists think about the world is symmetry. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they’re interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
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. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that’s generated in other areas. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn’t necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then ‘natural philosophy’ became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there’s a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers. Lawrence M. Krauss Read Quote
