Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

There is something endearing about the weatherman.

When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

Every cloud engenders not a storm.

Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none.

Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.

It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment.

Who reports the works and ways of the clouds, those wondrous creations coming into being every day like freshly upheaved mountains?

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

I'm just moving clouds today, tomorrow I'll try mountains.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.