Steven Weinberg
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- The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- The First Three Minutes, Basic Books, June 1993.
- Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it 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.
- Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. April 1999. [1]
- One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.
- ibid.
- 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.
- The Revolution That Didn't Happen, The New York Review of Books, 45(15), 1998. [2]
- 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.
- Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist, February 1995.
- It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.
- Physics Today, November 2005, page 35.de:Steven Weinberg
