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It was essential for the discovery of science that religious ideas be divorced from the study of nature.
— Steven Weinberg
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
— Steven Weinberg
Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.
— Steven Weinberg
Much of the writing of physicists barely reaches the level of prose.
— Steven Weinberg
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ... , the most dangerous adversaries of science.
— Steven Weinberg
No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.
— Steven Weinberg
It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!
— Steven Weinberg
A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But
— Steven Weinberg
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
— Steven Weinberg
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
— Steven Weinberg
Finally, there is a more subtle relation among F, E, and V.
— Steven Weinberg
In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.
— Steven Weinberg
I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.
— Steven Weinberg
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
— Steven Weinberg
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.
— Steven Weinberg
Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
— Steven Weinberg
Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God
— Steven Weinberg
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
— Steven Weinberg
On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.
— Steven Weinberg
Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.
— Steven Weinberg
My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.
— Steven Weinberg
If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.
— 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 few simple principles.
— Steven Weinberg
Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.
— Steven Weinberg
Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary,
— Steven Weinberg
Einstein occasionally used "God" as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature.
— Steven Weinberg
The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.
— Steven Weinberg
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
— Steven Weinberg
Intelligent design ideology being promoted today is not science - it is rather the abdication of science.
— Steven Weinberg
Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.
— Steven Weinberg
Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians gods with gray eyes and red hair,
— Steven Weinberg
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
— Steven Weinberg
As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.
— Steven Weinberg
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
— Steven Weinberg
I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!
— Steven Weinberg
As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees's dog.
— Steven Weinberg
Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.
— Steven Weinberg
It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.
— Steven Weinberg
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.
— Steven Weinberg
In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
— Steven Weinberg