"The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis."

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Source : "A Universe Without Purpose" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#Design Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.”
“Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.”
“Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.”
“The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.”
“In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.”

Source : Frank O. Gehry, Vlado Milunić (2003). “Dancing building”
“The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.”
“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
“If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants, clean water-the first tack that the lawyers use, among others things, and that companies use, is that it's going to drive the electricity bill up, drive the cost of cars up, drive everything up. It repeatedly has been demonstrated that once the engineers start thinking about it, it's actually far less than the original estimates. We should remember that when we hear this again, because you will hear it again.”

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