Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the significance of our existence in the context of the universe's vast history.
Lawrence M. Krauss's quote urges us to recognize the cosmic origins of our existence, suggesting that the stars, which have undergone immense transformations over billions of years, are the very reason we are here today. It encourages a perspective that appreciates the scientific and existential wonder of life, emphasizing that our being is deeply connected to the universe itself rather than solely relying on religious or spiritual explanations.
In practice
In a scientific lecture to illustrate the connection between humanity and the cosmos.
The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
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.
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false.
To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything.
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
If we live truly, we shall see truly.
All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.
If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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