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
Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. — 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
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
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
If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going… — 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
It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important,… — 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
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again… — 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… — 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… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“In general the fact that gravitational and inertial forces are both proportional to the mass of the body on which they act… — 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
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
Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in… — 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
My work during the 1970s has been mainly concerned with the implications of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, with… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“At sufficiently high energy the force of gravitation between two typical elementary particles becomes as strong as any other force between them.… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The fact that the force of gravity can be made to disappear for a brief time over a small region around any… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“What one needs is a quantum mechanical model with a wave function that describes not only various systems under study but also… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Itwas one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant wasimportant. Now of course it's still important, of course,… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“The principles of relativity and quantum mechanics are almost incompatible with each other and can coexist only in a limited class of… — 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
