Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — 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… — 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… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes… — 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
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
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by… — 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
“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try… — 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
I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Whatever faith you have you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science. There's something ignoble about not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“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 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
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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 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
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It… — 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
