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
beauty art groups
The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
spooky mathematician physicist
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
seems pointless universe
The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.
religion atheism balance
On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.
humanity purpose way
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.
tired europe america
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?
discovery law intellectual
How strange it would be if the final theory were to be discovered in our lifetimes! The discovery of the final laws of nature will mark a discontinuity in human intellectual history, the sharpest that has occurred since the beginning of modern science in the seventeenth century. Can we now imagine what that would be like?
today programming evidence
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.
arrows finals century
If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.
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.
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.