With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The apparent strengths of the forces in any field theory depend on two kinds of numerical parameter: the masses (if any) of the particles… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I would say it's a lot easier to develop a decoy system than to develop the intercontinental ballistic missile itself. I would think that… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Plato and the neo-Platonists taught that the beauty we see in nature is a reflection of the beauty of the ultimate, the nous. For… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image