Steven Weinberg Quotes
Top 46 wise famous quotes and sayings by Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Steven Weinberg on Wise Famous Quotes.
It was essential for the discovery of science that religious ideas be divorced from the study of nature.
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ... , the most dangerous adversaries of science.
A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.
Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God
Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.
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.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
Intelligent design ideology being promoted today is not science - it is rather the abdication of science.
As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.
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.
Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.