Lawrence M. Krauss quote: "There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics."

Donald Trump's candidacy has been a source of anxiety for many reasons, but one stands out: the ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a t...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

For all of his bravado, obnoxiousness, hatred, and vitriol, the scariest thing about Trump, to me, i...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the oppo...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

These days, gun violence can strike anywhere, from a church hall in Charleston to a movie theatre or...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of c...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

I am in favor of saying, 'Okay, let's get teams of educators and experts in certain discipli...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cann...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible diffe...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the su...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and rel...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specif...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior th...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it impl...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

One thing I cannot understand - and people are probably going to be upset about this - is why local ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Immediately after the San Bernardino shooting, when it was unclear whether Syed Rizwan Farook and Ta...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Empirical explorations ultimately change our understanding of which questions are important and frui...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations ca...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

When it comes to the real operational issues that govern our understanding of physical reality, onto...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably ca...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

On the question of preserving public lands, Trump replies that our elected officials have spent too ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Symmetry does mean something different for physicists than for members of the public. It means that ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

For a physicist or a mathematician, the most symmetrical object you could think about would be a sph...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but pro...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is h...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

What we can do is provide the tools, through our educational system, for people to be able to tell s...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the sim...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

A snowflake is another beautifully ordered example of what simple, natural meteorological processes ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

I don't know if science and reason will ultimately help guide humanity to a better and more peac...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, ...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find somet...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one...
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born.
LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS

What I really hope to do is leave you dizzy by the end of this.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

It's the best thing to do. It's unfortunate that this had to happen. Now, we can move forward to the...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

It's a difficult thing to do and I felt prepared to do it. But some people think you are embarrassin...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

The Dover trial changes the national profile a lot?.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

What's ... important about this case is that it validates the separation of church and state. Even m...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

In science there often aren't two sides. You know, gravity works.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

[The struggle to understand what seems unknowable] is something I love, ... to face up to the contin...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

That would give social structures more time to adapt.
LAWRENCE KRAUSS

Many people today acquiesce in the widespread myth, devised in the late 19th century, of an epic bat...
LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE

In order to understand early modern natural philosophy, it is necessary to break free of several com...
LAWRENCE M. PRINCIPE

It's in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER

The last time I looked, when you call somebody a criminal and it ain't true, that's libel per se.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER

It was true in the 19th century, and it's true today.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER

Eventually, every political question becomes a legal question.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER

There are times when the law grinds kind of slowly.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER

You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales a...
ALISON KRAUSS

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.
NICOLE KRAUSS

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who p...
NICOLE KRAUSS

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole yea...
NICOLE KRAUSS

That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyo...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spen...
NICOLE KRAUSS

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out cl...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and h...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.
KARL KRAUSS

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The cont...
ALISON KRAUSS

[A bookish child, she used to read at the dinner table, something that was not discouraged. She was ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cu...
NICOLE KRAUSS

And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another...
NICOLE KRAUSS

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.
ALLISON KRAUSS

Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
ALLISON KRAUSS

You have no idea what this means! Thanks, folks.
ALISON KRAUSS

Lonely Runs Both Ways. It's amazing to win for (Country) Album of the Year because we kind of just m...
ALISON KRAUSS

My Poor Old Heart, Forget About It.
ALISON KRAUSS

It sounded like a drag...so we recorded it.
ALISON KRAUSS

I grew up in Champaign, so this is very near the land of my people, ... Restless.
ALISON KRAUSS

I just appreciate the clarity of her voice.
ALISON KRAUSS

[The sign says,] 'Please do not climb on Mike,' ... Nooo problem.
ALISON KRAUSS

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
NICOLE KRAUSS

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wis...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the form...
NICOLE KRAUSS

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s tu...
NICOLE KRAUSS

When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a patholog...
NICOLE KRAUSS

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?
NICOLE KRAUSS

HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. The...
NICOLE KRAUSS

George! ... Actually, I sort of like it when she does that.
NICOLE KRAUSS

Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no l...
NICOLE KRAUSS

She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the uni...
NICOLE KRAUSS

These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone tak...
NICOLE KRAUSS

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an...
NICOLE KRAUSS

He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, h...
NICOLE KRAUSS

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the inf...
NICOLE KRAUSS

One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me. "I've seen you out there every d...
NICOLE KRAUSS

15. WHENEVER I WENT OUT TO PLAY, MY MOTHER WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING TO BE

NICOLE KRAUSS

The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flo...
NICOLE KRAUSS

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP
Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Franz Kafka is Dead

He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they...
NICOLE KRAUSS

For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I was never a man of great ambition
I cried too easily
I didn't have a head for science NICOLE KRAUSS

...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not th...
NICOLE KRAUSS

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wante...
NICOLE KRAUSS

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.
NICOLE KRAUSS

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.
NICOLE KRAUSS

She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows aro...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.
NICOLE KRAUSS

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist, there are still those that lie beyond our capacity...
NICOLE KRAUSS

What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Wh...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or t...
NICOLE KRAUSS

She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts...
NICOLE KRAUSS

We knew we at least had overtime, but we wanted to try for a final shot. Tyson was able to get the b...
DOUG KRAUSS

Never in my wildest dreams would I think this would happen. When we started practice back on Nov. 6,...
DOUG KRAUSS

We knew we would at least have overtime. We would get one shot and see what happens.
DOUG KRAUSS

It's Game 20 or so. If you can't trust them by now, you're never going to trust them.
DOUG KRAUSS

Being able to go to Columbus for a third time in four years - I can't put in words.
DOUG KRAUSS

We knew we at least would have overtime. We just wanted to get a shot off and see what happens.
DOUG KRAUSS

We had hopes for a good season. We've put together a pretty nice run in the tournament.
DOUG KRAUSS

Our guys did a great job. They passed the ball well and shots went in. Guys make shots and it become...
DOUG KRAUSS

We will have to play probably our best game of the year to win on Saturday.
DOUG KRAUSS

We got off to a great start. We energized ourselves at both ends of the floor.
DOUG KRAUSS

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a ...
ALISON KRAUSS

Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
ALISON KRAUSS

They were dealing with 3000 patients at the same time, six doctors, two surgeons only, and so they r...
ERICH KRAUSS

I think this will significantly change the LDP.
ELLIS KRAUSS

If Koizumi wins, his party is not going to be the old LDP, ... Koizumi has become able to call the s...
ELLIS KRAUSS

He's purged the party of recalcitrant anti-reformers at least in one field, and others will get the ...
ELLIS KRAUSS

I think this will significantly change the LDP,
ELLIS KRAUSS

Party label and leadership image become more important...and thus who leads the party and what the p...
ELLIS KRAUSS

This election could mean a major jump to a much more Western-style system in Japanese politics -- th...
ELLIS KRAUSS

I don't think either party is the party of radical reform. Both will do evolutionary reform, and in ...
ELLIS KRAUSS

Popular nationalism and sometimes the Chinese government's manipulation of the issue, as well as Jap...
ELLIS KRAUSS

If you're looking for the next issue, it will be very tempting for people to say 'Let's do it now'.
ELLIS KRAUSS

You don't have to be young and handsome, but you have to be able to manage the media and project an ...
ELLIS KRAUSS

Except for their last two 3-pointers [in the final 22 seconds, when the game was decided], they only...
DAVE KRAUSS

We just didn't take care of the basketball. Part of that was Wauseon's defense, and part of that was...
DAVE KRAUSS

The good thing for us is that they never got too far ahead, so we never lost contact with them. They...
DAVE KRAUSS

I thought their shot was pretty well defended. We had a hand in his face, and the kid made a tough s...
DAVE KRAUSS

The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
NICOLE KRAUSS

I don't know what to say about it, except that it moved me in a way one hopes to be moved each time ...
NICOLE KRAUSS

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.
NICOLE KRAUSS

To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
NICOLE KRAUSS

So, although my story is sometimes ugly, it's also beautiful.
NIKI KRAUSS

Of course, there's still a lot to do.
RAY KRAUSS

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to...
NICOLE KRAUSS

I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M

-I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M

Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M.

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY

We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE

In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK

My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK

Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK

Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK

Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK

I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not kn...
D.H. LAWRENCE

We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW

We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE

When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
VICKI LAWRENCE

It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to p...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Bur...
VICKI LAWRENCE

People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless th...
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everybody just told me from the day I went into high school that I looked like Carol Burnett.
VICKI LAWRENCE

Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
VICKI LAWRENCE

I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a prett...
VICKI LAWRENCE

There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

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There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case of descriptive philosophy, you have literature or logic, which, in my view, is really mathematics.

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