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 More Quotes by Steven Weinberg More Quotes From Steven Weinberg It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental. Steven Weinberg important people religion Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary. Steven Weinberg seems beautiful sometimes Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses. Steven Weinberg teaching religious teacher In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism. You have to be very learned to be that wrong. Steven Weinberg lobbying vote trying The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature. Steven Weinberg prejudice religious past Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. Steven Weinberg boring reason reason-why It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose! Steven Weinberg what-matters winning funny If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature. Steven Weinberg atheism law religion The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems. Steven Weinberg pointless universe seems The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. Steven Weinberg atheism seems religion You know, our fundamentalist friends dislike the teaching of evolution in schools because of the effect they feel it has on our view of our own special importance, while liberals insist that scientific and spiritual matters can be kept in separate compartments. On this point, I tend to agree with the fundamentalists, though I come to opposite conclusions about teaching evolution because I am convinced it's true. Steven Weinberg teaching spiritual school 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. Steven Weinberg simple jobs science For good people to do evil things, it takes religion. Steven Weinberg if-there-is-a-god atheist religious [Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. Steven Weinberg atheist religious religion I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this? Steven Weinberg tired europe america If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled. Steven Weinberg foundation physics ifs 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. Steven Weinberg marriage beautiful beauty If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists. Steven Weinberg teaching worry long Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not. Steven Weinberg finals atheism thinking Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. Steven Weinberg atheism care atheist
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