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