Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.

George W. Bush is not a twit, but he does have twit tendencies.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

No guy with a Ph.D. is going to beat me.

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

The only people who need degrees are dentists and brain surgeons.

You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.