Steven Weinberg Quotes

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

Science is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees’s dog.

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

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

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 simple principles.

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 not meant the laws of nature.

The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

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

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

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

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

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god becomes increasingly implausible.

Science should be taught not to support religion and not to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply by ignoring religion.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

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

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

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

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God