Steven Weinberg

I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.

— Steven Weinberg

I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.

— Steven Weinberg

“.....known as the anthropic principle, ehich states that the laws of nature should allow the existence of intelligent beings that can ask…

— Steven Weinberg

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

— Steven Weinberg

Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing…

— Steven Weinberg

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

— Steven Weinberg

“In its final form, the general theory of relativity was just a reinterpretation of the existing mathematics of curved spaces in terms…

— Steven Weinberg

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

— Steven Weinberg

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism,…

— Steven Weinberg

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

— Steven Weinberg

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never…

— Steven Weinberg

“We on earth do not feel either the gravitational field of the sun or the centrifugal force caused by the earth's motion…

— 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

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

— Steven Weinberg

For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about…

— Steven Weinberg

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

— Steven Weinberg

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

— Steven Weinberg

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

— Steven Weinberg

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern…

— Steven Weinberg

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

— Steven Weinberg

Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever…

— Steven Weinberg

You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our…

— Steven Weinberg

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing…

— Steven Weinberg

“The real difference between Aristarchus and today's astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he…

— 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