Science Quotes by Steven Weinberg

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

— 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

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

— Steven Weinberg

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.

— Steven Weinberg

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

— Steven Weinberg

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

— Steven Weinberg

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

— Steven Weinberg

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

— Steven Weinberg

There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or…

— Steven Weinberg

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

If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century…

— Steven Weinberg

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level…

— Steven Weinberg

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

— Steven Weinberg

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree…

— Steven Weinberg

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by…

— Steven Weinberg

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end,…

— Steven Weinberg

Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were…

— 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

Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand…

— Steven Weinberg

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It…

— Steven Weinberg

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not…

— Steven Weinberg

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to…

— Steven Weinberg

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future…

— Steven Weinberg

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a…

— Steven Weinberg

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we…

— Steven Weinberg

We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the…

— Steven Weinberg

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

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

“There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try…

— 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

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

— Steven Weinberg

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Steven Weinberg

I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from…

— Steven Weinberg

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

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