Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinbergis an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth3 May 1933
CountryUnited States of America
cancer opportunity order
It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?
atheist atheism care
Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.
dog enough multiverse
As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees’s dog.
evolution excitement natural
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
trying lobbying vote
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.
religious past lessons
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.
understanding seems concepts
The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.
philosophical objectivity data
How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a tribute to the essential objectivity of modern astrophysics that this consensus has been brought about, not by shifts in philosophical preference or by the influence of astrophysical mandarins, but by the pressure of empirical data.
reason-why boring reason
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.
advice action mess
My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.
avoids errors grand sweeping
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.