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Science Quotes by Steven Weinberg
- 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…
- 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…
- [Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.
- If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the…
- I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into…
- I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
- Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to…
- Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more…
- This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
- Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs.
- Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few…
- The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and…
- One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to…
- Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God
- Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
More Science Quotes
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov