Experiments Quote by Steven Weinberg

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

— Steven Weinberg

“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

“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

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

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

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

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

— Steven Weinberg

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

— Steven Weinberg

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

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

“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

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

— Steven Weinberg