Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.

I have always thought it curious that, while most scientists claim to eschew religion, it actually dominates their thoughts more than it does the clergy.

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

I'm very interested in science.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

I was going to be a scientist.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.