Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes


When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?


Citations

Krauss, Lawrence M. "Faith and Foolishness: When Religious Beliefs Become Dangerous." Scientific American, vol. 303, no. 2, Aug. 2010, p. 36.

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Lawrence M. Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
  • Born: May 27, 1954
  • Nationality: American, Canadian
  • Profession: Physicist

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.