Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes
We all trust each other to some extent. We have to rely on experts to some extent, but we should learn to be sceptical.
Krauss, Lawrence M. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing. Free Press, 2012.
The President had taken a hard line against Iran developing the capacity for nuclear weapons even though some other nations in the world had nuclear capability. However the President and other leaders of Iran had already publicly stated that there should be death to the United States, that our ally Israel should be wiped off the map. Critics of the President claimed that these statements were just rhetoric that is part of the culture of Islamic politics and oratory. The president responded with this quotation. Before WWII Adolf Hitler had written Mein Kampf and wrote about everything that he eventually did causing death and destruction throughout the world. At the time he wrote these things few took him seriously.
This principle, so important to the philosophy of science, was a major component of the philosophy of Spinoza—the part that had him excommunicated by the 3 major religions of the era.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. He arrives at the same place as Spinoza did in the 17th century although his reasons are different.
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director.
