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All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

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.

Much of the writing of physicists barely reaches the level of prose.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ... , the most dangerous adversaries of science.

No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

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

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

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

Finally, there is a more subtle relation among F, E, and V.

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

I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.

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

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

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

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

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

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

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

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.

Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary,

Einstein occasionally used "God" as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature.

The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.

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.

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

Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians gods with gray eyes and red hair,

This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.

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

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