Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinbergis an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 May 1933
CountryUnited States of America
Steven Weinberg quotes about
humanity purpose way
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.
seems pointless universe
The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.
religion atheism balance
On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.
religious atheist thinking
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.
religion atheism seems
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
long important atheism
I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.
religious atheist if-there-is-a-god
For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
religious believe mean
This doesn't mean that they commit themselves to the view that this is all there is. Many scientists (including me) think that this is the case, but other scientists are religious, and believe that what is observed in nature is at least in part a result of God's will.
keys our-generation hands
We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden from us, we can sense that they are latent in nature, governing everything about us. That's the most exciting idea I know: that nature is much simpler than it looks. Nothing makes me more hopeful that our generation of human beings may actually hold the key to the universe in our hands-that perhaps in our lifetimes we may be able to tell why all of what we see in this immense universe of galaxies and particles is logically inevitable.
atheism invocation enjoy
I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!
spooky mathematician physicist
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
foundation physics ifs
If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.
marriage beauty beautiful
Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.
nature want ugly
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.