It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than… — 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
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
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
Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God — 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
It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree… — 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
In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. — 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
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were… — 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