Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Modern physics often advances only by sacrificing some of our traditional philosophical convictions

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

Science rejects the indeterminate.

The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

Change begets change.

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Yesterday influences today, thus creates tomorrow.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.