Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

I love challenging the status quo.

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years.

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.

I am interested in work that jumps boundaries, and that makes trouble. Part of me is comfortable with that: with being a bit of a troublemaker.

The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

The day before something is a breakthrough, it is a crazy idea.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

Crazy may not be the one who says the sun is the center of the solar system, the Earth is round, and someday people might fly. It may be those who laugh at such words whose minds are lost.

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that's perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.

I have always lived my life outside of the box. I find it to be way more fun there.

I just want to change the game.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like 'Road.'

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.