Steven Weinberg

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

— Steven Weinberg

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

— Steven Weinberg

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

— Steven Weinberg

I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.

— Steven Weinberg

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

— Steven Weinberg

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

— Steven Weinberg

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

— Steven Weinberg

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

— Steven Weinberg

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be…

— Steven Weinberg

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level…

— Steven Weinberg

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree…

— Steven Weinberg

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

— Steven Weinberg

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

— Steven Weinberg

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

— Steven Weinberg

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never…

— Steven Weinberg

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people…

— Steven Weinberg

I would say it's a lot easier to develop a decoy system than to develop the intercontinental ballistic missile itself. I would…

— Steven Weinberg

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes…

— Steven Weinberg

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It…

— Steven Weinberg

In my experience, many Americans think of religion as important and want to do whatever they can to support it. But if…

— Steven Weinberg

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or…

— Steven Weinberg

Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in…

— Steven Weinberg

Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were…

— Steven Weinberg

Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest…

— Steven Weinberg

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we…

— Steven Weinberg

Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand…

— Steven Weinberg

Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in…

— Steven Weinberg

I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again…

— Steven Weinberg

“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try…

— Steven Weinberg

I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many…

— Steven Weinberg

“In its final form, the general theory of relativity was just a reinterpretation of the existing mathematics of curved spaces in terms…

— Steven Weinberg

This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but…

— Steven Weinberg

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

— Steven Weinberg

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

— Steven Weinberg

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

— Steven Weinberg

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

— Steven Weinberg

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.

— Steven Weinberg

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

— Steven Weinberg

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

— Steven Weinberg

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

— Steven Weinberg