Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Science is not wisdom.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Religion can have psychological and social roles, but in terms of really explaining how things work, science works differently. Science is based on material elements at the core.

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'

I believe science has a wonderful ability, in an unbiased way, to offer hope to many people who are confused, but it's not the only way to find hope.

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

Science is but an image of the truth.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.