Steven Weinberg

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

— Steven Weinberg

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

— Steven Weinberg

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

— Steven Weinberg

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

— Steven Weinberg

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

— Steven Weinberg

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

— Steven Weinberg

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

— Steven Weinberg

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

— Steven Weinberg

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by…

— Steven Weinberg

“There is a beauty in these laws that mirrors something that is built into the structure of the universe at a very…

— Steven Weinberg

“we think that all the forces of nature become united at something like the Planck energy, a million billion times larger than…

— Steven Weinberg

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern…

— Steven Weinberg

“…known as the anthropic principle, ehich states that the laws of nature should allow the existence of intelligent beings that can ask…

— Steven Weinberg

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

— Steven Weinberg

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end,…

— Steven Weinberg

If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine…

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I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really…

— Steven Weinberg

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not…

— Steven Weinberg

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future…

— Steven Weinberg

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a…

— Steven Weinberg

This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that…

— Steven Weinberg

It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not…

— Steven Weinberg

You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our…

— Steven Weinberg

If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century…

— Steven Weinberg

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to…

— Steven Weinberg

We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the…

— Steven Weinberg

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious…

— Steven Weinberg

“The fact that the force of gravity can be made to disappear for a brief time over a small region around any…

— Steven Weinberg

“What one needs is a quantum mechanical model with a wave function that describes not only various systems under study but also…

— Steven Weinberg

“We on earth do not feel either the gravitational field of the sun or the centrifugal force caused by the earth's motion…

— Steven Weinberg

“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion…

— Steven Weinberg

“Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God…

— Steven Weinberg

“The idea of an anthropic principle began with the remark that the laws of nature seem surprisingly well suited to the existence…

— Steven Weinberg

“The apparent strengths of the forces in any field theory depend on two kinds of numerical parameter: the masses (if any) of…

— Steven Weinberg

“The principles of relativity and quantum mechanics are almost incompatible with each other and can coexist only in a limited class of…

— Steven Weinberg

“In general the fact that gravitational and inertial forces are both proportional to the mass of the body on which they act…

— Steven Weinberg

“It used to be obvious that the world was designed by some sort of intelligence. What else could account for fire and…

— Steven Weinberg

“Many of the great world religions teach that God demands a particular faith and form of worship. It should not be surprising…

— Steven Weinberg

“Using the standard model of elementary particles, we know how to follow the course of nuclear reactions in the standard "big bang"…

— Steven Weinberg

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

— Steven Weinberg