Lawrence M. Krauss

“Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.”

“Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should...”

“It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.”

“Parents, of course, have concerns and 'say,' but they don't have the right to shield their children from knowledge. That is not a right, any more than they have the right to shield their chi...”

“When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end up causing them not to happen. Humans are 100-pound bags of water, built...”

“For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.”

“I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.”

“Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.”