Steven Weinberg Quotes

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• They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is… Atheist
• It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless… Cold
• We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden… Able
• Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was… Deeper
• There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the… Ago
• How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will… Beginning
• 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… Astrophysical
• If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen… All
• It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about… Appears
• On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful. Atheism
• If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has… Any
• I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply… Abraham
• [Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. Atheism
• Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have… Any
• Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. Bias
• It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less… Accidents
• Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Chaotic
• I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… Advances
• I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no… Argue
• I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because… All

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