Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
Even if there is a God, how do you know that his moral judgments are the correct ones? Seems to me Abraham should have said, ‘God, that’s just not right.’ Steven Weinberg Read Quote
Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality – entails and titles of nobility – even before we had a constitution. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn’t understand consciousness. We wouldn’t even understand turbulence. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in weak interaction processes. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That’s a good thing. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. Steven Weinberg Read Quote
