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“If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.”

Steven Weinberg

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On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Steven Weinberg

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“The apparent strengths of the forces in any field theory depend on two kinds of numerical parameter: the masses (if any) of the particles like W and Z particles that transmit the forces, and certain intrinsic strengths (also known as coupling constants) that characterize the likelihood for particles like photons or gluons or W and Z particles to be emitted…

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“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Issac because God told him to do that. Putting God…

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This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world. Even worse, there often seems…

Steven Weinberg

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

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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

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Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Steven Weinberg

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The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Steven Weinberg

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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 without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the…

Steven Weinberg

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

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“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 us, too, the beauty of present theories is an anticipation, a premonition, of the beauty of the final theory. And in any case, we would not accept any theory as final unless it were beautiful.”

Steven Weinberg

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

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A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed.

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The foundation of the Christian's peace is everlasting; it is what no time, no change can destroy. It will remain when the body dies; it will remain when the mountains depart and the hills shall be removed, and when the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. The fountain of His comfort shall never be diminished, and the stream…

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