Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

In a way I guess I'd be a bad judge of what it was like because it just seemed perfectly normal to me.

Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

I had imagined doing nuclear physics and cosmic ray work in greater style in peace time. To do modern physics in a small way is of no use of all.

Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

It strikes me how strange people are. You can see them every day - you can think you know them - and then you fшnd out you hardly know them at all.

Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial cell. We have a wilderness of mystery to make our way through in the centuries ahead.

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems .

I see a long lost home in his eyes. He sees a nice hotel in mine.

I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle' because it was clear it was going to be a tough job finding it experimentally. His editor wouldn't have that, and he said 'okay, call it the God particle', and the editor accepted it. I don't think he should've have done, because it's so misleading.