Steven Weinberg Quotes

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
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.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.
Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.
Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.
Certainly science, because of its ability to increase our capacities to do things, raises terrible risks for us all. If it were possible to undiscover nuclear fission, I would be very happy to undiscover it, because of the risks that it puts us all under.
Even if there is a God, how do you know that his moral judgments are the correct ones? Seems to me Abraham should have said, 'God, that's just not right.'
Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in science fiction; it was the vision of future societies that, for better or worse, would be radically different from our own.
For someone who claimed to have found the true method for seeking reliable knowledge, it is remarkable how wrong Descartes was about so many aspects of nature.
I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.
I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.
I was born in 1933 in New York City to Frederick and Eva Weinberg. My early inclination toward science received encouragement from my father, and by the time I was 15 or 16, my interests had focused on theoretical physics.
I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.
I would say it's a lot easier to develop a decoy system than to develop the intercontinental ballistic missile itself. I would think that any country that could develop the missile could develop quite a decoy system. It doesn't have to be terribly sophisticated.
If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.
If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.
I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.
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