Quotes by Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg

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

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[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

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A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word “hermeneutics” in the dictionary.

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A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

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Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in The Incoherence of the Philosophers against the very idea of laws of nature, on the ground that any such laws would put God’s hands in chains. According to al-Ghazzali, a piece of cotton placed in a flame does not darken and smoulder because of the heat, but because God wants it to darken and smoulder. After al-Ghazzali, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries.

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As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

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

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For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

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

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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?

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Quotes by Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg

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

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word “hermeneutics” in the dictionary.

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.

As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.

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

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

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

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