Steven Weinberg quotes: top famous quotes and sayings by Steven Weinberg

Top Steven Weinberg Quotes

Browse top 12 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Steven Weinberg.

Favorite Steven Weinberg Quotes

1. "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

2. "Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God because I don't believe in God, but in the same sense that I don't like Iago, or the Reverend Slope or any of the other villains of literature, the god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god who will... who obsessed the degree to which people worship him and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way. Now I realise that many people don't believe in that any more who call themselves Muslims or Jews or Christians, but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him." ~ Steven Weinberg

3. "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion" ~ Steven Weinberg

4. "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

5. "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." ~ Steven Weinberg

6. "An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy." ~ Steven Weinberg

7. "Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out." ~ Steven Weinberg

8. "All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically" ~ Steven Weinberg

9. "Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God" ~ Steven Weinberg

10. "I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer." ~ Steven Weinberg

11. "I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too." ~ Steven Weinberg

12. "If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that—in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play." ~ Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quotes Pictures

<< Richard P Feynman Quotes

Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes >>

Today's Quote

It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show."
Author: Andrew Dost