Steven Weinberg Quotes

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.