If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“…known as the anthropic principle, ehich states that the laws of nature should allow the existence of intelligent beings that can ask… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“we think that all the forces of nature become united at something like the Planck energy, a million billion times larger than… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of… — 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
For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“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 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… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The idea of an anthropic principle began with the remark that the laws of nature seem surprisingly well suited to the existence… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The familiar Mercator projection used in maps of the earth gives a good idea of distances and directions near the equator, but… — 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
