How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not… — 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
“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
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
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
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
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share
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
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
“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
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share
If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share
Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in science fiction;… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share
