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
atheism invocation enjoy
I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!
spooky mathematician physicist
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
foundation physics ifs
If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.
marriage beauty beautiful
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.
nature want ugly
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
hands evil world
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.
beauty art groups
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
religious atheism world
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.
pain prayer taken
If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.
hero prophet
In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.
civilization done may
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.
interesting simplicity complexity
In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
views people looks
Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for him. One hears it said that 'God is the ultimate' or 'God is our better nature' or 'God is the universe.' Of course, like any other word, the word 'God' can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that 'God is energy,' then you can find God in a lump of coal.
religious intelligent accomplishment
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.