Steven Weinberg

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

— Steven Weinberg

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary,

— Steven Weinberg

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

— Steven Weinberg

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

— Steven Weinberg

It's very difficult to convince other countries that they shouldn't pursue nuclear weapons programs if we ourselves are actively developing a component…

— Steven Weinberg

For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about…

— Steven Weinberg

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but…

— Steven Weinberg

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and…

— Steven Weinberg

Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of…

— Steven Weinberg

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there…

— Steven Weinberg

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going…

— Steven Weinberg

“The theologian Paul Tillich once observed that among scientists only physicists seem capable of using the word "God" without embarrassment. Whatever one's…

— Steven Weinberg

“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not…

— Steven Weinberg

It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans,…

— Steven Weinberg

When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state,…

— Steven Weinberg

How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws…

— Steven Weinberg

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein…

— Steven Weinberg

“Plato and the neo-Platonists taught that the beauty we see in nature is a reflection of the beauty of the ultimate, the…

— Steven Weinberg

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people…

— Steven Weinberg

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of…

— Steven Weinberg

I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.

— Steven Weinberg

As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees’s…

— Steven Weinberg

My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in…

— Steven Weinberg

It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise…

— Steven Weinberg

“Once again I repeat: the aim pf physics at its most fundamental level is not just to describe the world but ti…

— Steven Weinberg

It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything…

— Steven Weinberg

“What is surely impossible is that a theoretical physicist, given unlimited computing power, should deduce from the laws of physics that a…

— Steven Weinberg

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I…

— Steven Weinberg

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the…

— Steven Weinberg

Even if there is a God, how do you know that his moral judgments are the correct ones? Seems to me Abraham…

— Steven Weinberg

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil…

— Steven Weinberg

I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that…

— Steven Weinberg

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms…

— Steven Weinberg

Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes…

— Steven Weinberg

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality…

— Steven Weinberg

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil…

— Steven Weinberg

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

— Steven Weinberg

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were…

— Steven Weinberg

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply…

— Steven Weinberg

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing…

— Steven Weinberg