Steven Weinberg Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

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

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

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

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

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.