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• Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.

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  Philosophy, Fields, Resentment

  "Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete?". Interview with Ross Andersen, www.theatlantic.com. Apr 23, 2012.

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• The fact is that people would rather cling when they're afraid of something to a priori beliefs than rather open their minds about it.

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  People, Mind, Facts

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

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  Reality, Accepting, Exciting

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

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  Community, Democracy, Liberty

  "Does Religious Liberty Equal Freedom to Discriminate?" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.

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  Stress, Enough, Being True

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• If you have nothing in quantum mechanics, you will always have something.

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  Mechanic, Quantum, Quantum Mechanics

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Discerning the merits of competing claims is where the empirical basis of science should play a role. I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. What fails the test of empirical reality, as determined by observation and experiment, gets thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.

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  Stress, Reality, Play

  "War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?". www.scientificamerican.com. December 1, 2009.

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• A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.

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  Gay, Abortion, Favors

  "Faith vs. Fact" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

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  Mean, Comfort, Threshold

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

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  Religious, Ideas, Leader

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• The really important thing is learning how to sceptically question and rely on empirical evidence.

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  Important, Empirical Evidence, Rely

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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• Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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  Miracle, Islam, Christianity

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• Celebrate our brief moment in the sun

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  Sun, Moments, Celebrate

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• I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.

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  May, Strange, Belgians

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

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  Real, Imagination, Interesting

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• There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

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  Kids, Religion, Atheism

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• The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

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  Truth, Comfort, Belief

  Lawrence M. Krauss (2012). “A Universe From Nothing”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

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  Communication, Space, Satellites

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• We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Way

  "Lawrence Krauss On 'A Universe From Nothing' Listen· 21:33". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 13, 2012.

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• Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Moreover, the true believers in each of these faiths are atheists regarding the specific sacred tenets of all other faiths. Christianity rejects the proposition that the Quran contains the infallible words of the creator of the universe. Muslims and Jews reject the divinity of Jesus.

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  Jesus, Atheist, Miracle

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• For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

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  Reality, Events, Doe

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• The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.

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  Stars, Atoms, Body

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.

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  Team, Years, Fiction

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• Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

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  Space, Empty, Scales

  "Lawrence Krauss On 'A Universe From Nothing'". Interview with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 13, 2012.

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• Science is not just there for technology. It's part of what addressing who you are in the universe and understanding your place in the cosmos. Good art, good literature, good music - all of that is for that and science is a part of it.

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  Art, Technology, Understanding

  "Making science interesting. Lawrence Krauss discusses what happens to scientific literacy". "The 7.30 Report" with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. June 29, 2015.

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