Whatever faith you have you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science. There’s something ignoble about not being willing to look at what we’ve found about the way the world is and trying to reconcile it with whatever you’ve decided to believe in for yourself. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
In my experience, many Americans think of religion as important and want to do whatever they can to support it. But if you ask them what they themselves believe, you’ll find they’re very uncertain about their religious beliefs. They don’t actually accept the theology of their official church. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
I’m afraid that it’s not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
I would say it’s a lot easier to develop a decoy system than to develop the intercontinental ballistic missile itself. I would think that any country that could develop the missile could develop quite a decoy system. It doesn’t have to be terribly sophisticated. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
It’s very difficult to convince other countries that they shouldn’t pursue nuclear weapons programs if we ourselves are actively developing a component of a strategic defense system. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong – but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation? Steven Weinberg Read Quote
