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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.
~ Steven Weinberg
Born
By The Time
City
Early
Encouragement
Eva
Father
Focused
Had
I Was Born
Inclination
Interests
New
New York
New York City
Physics
Received
Science
Theoretical
Time
Toward
York
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I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.
~ Steven Weinberg
Against
Country
Had
Leader
States
United
United States
Want
Would
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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.
~ Steven Weinberg
Any
Could
Country
Develop
Easier
Itself
Lot
Missile
Quite
Say
Sophisticated
System
Terribly
Than
Think
Would
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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.
~ Steven Weinberg
Adult
American
Any
Birth
Child
Circumstances
Determine
Idea
Justly
Life
Occupy
Should
Station
Will
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If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.
~ Steven Weinberg
Consciousness
Even
Fundamental
Fundamental Laws
Had
Laws
Nature
Still
Tomorrow
Turbulence
Understand
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I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.
~ Steven Weinberg
Afraid
Against
Defense
Design
Every
Possible
Think
Threat
You
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In my experience, many Americans think of religion as important and want to do whatever they can to support it. But if you ask them what they themselves believe, you'll find they're very uncertain about their religious beliefs. They don't actually accept the theology of their official church.
~ Steven Weinberg
About
Accept
Actually
American
Ask
Beliefs
Believe
Church
Experience
Find
Important
Many
Official
Religion
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Support
Them
Themselves
Theology
Think
Uncertain
Very
Want
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You
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It's very difficult to convince other countries that they shouldn't pursue nuclear weapons programs if we ourselves are actively developing a component of a strategic defense system.
~ Steven Weinberg
Actively
Component
Convince
Countries
Defense
Developing
Difficult
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Other
Other Countries
Ourselves
Programs
Pursue
Strategic
System
Very
Weapons
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My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in weak interaction processes.
~ Steven Weinberg
Adviser
Application
Effects
Interaction
Interactions
Processes
Sam
Strong
Theory
Thesis
Weak
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My work during the 1970s has been mainly concerned with the implications of the unified theory of weak and electromagnetic interactions, with the development of the related theory of strong interactions known as quantum chromodynamics, and with steps toward the unification of all interactions.
~ Steven Weinberg
1970s
Been
Concerned
Development
Electromagnetic
Has-Been
Implications
Interactions
Known
Mainly
Quantum
Related
Steps
Strong
Theory
Toward
Unification
Unified
Weak
Work
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One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.
~ Steven Weinberg
About
Am
Clearly
Equality
Free
Free Markets
I Am
Itself
Known
Markets
One Thing
Opportunity
Pale
Substitute
Talking
Thing
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Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.
~ Steven Weinberg
Ability
Because
Beings
Capabilities
Could
Evil
Gives
Good
Had
Hands
Human
Human Beings
Ill
Just
Just One
Like
Merely
More
Ought
People
Question
Questioning
Respect
Science
Than
Two
Us
Whether
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Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in certain ways.
~ Steven Weinberg
Certain
Change
Governing
Laws
Look
Nature
Point
Principles
Same
Say
Symmetry
Those
View
Ways
You
Your
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The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.
~ Steven Weinberg
Banner
Centuries
China
Everywhere
Failed
Gave
Ghastly
Idea
Influential
Mao
Most
Nineteenth
Socialism
Stalin
Twentieth
Us
Utopian
Which
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Whatever faith you have you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science. There's something ignoble about not being willing to look at what we've found about the way the world is and trying to reconcile it with whatever you've decided to believe in for yourself.
~ Steven Weinberg
About
Being
Believe
Confront
Decided
Discoveries
Faith
Found
Look
Ought
Reconcile
Science
Something
Trying
Way
Whatever
Willing
World
You
Yourself
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When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?
~ Steven Weinberg
Answer
Atomic
Calculating
Calculation
Calculations
Deal
Doing
Energy
Even
Get
How
Infinite
Like
Means
Mechanics
Perfectly
Quantum
Quantum Mechanics
Sensible
Something
State
Theory
Using
Way
Wrong
You
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20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than they were defined by a rejection of astrology, alchemy, Confucianism, Scientology, or any of hundreds of other belief systems.
~ Steven Pinker
Alchemy
Any
Astrology
Belief
Defined
Hundreds
More
Movements
Other
Rejection
Systems
Than
Totalitarian
Were
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A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.
~ Steven Pinker
Become
Bullies
Confidence
Court
Decent
Effective
Essential
Fair
Force
Government
People
Police
Police Force
System
Violent
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A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.
~ Steven Pinker
Clarity
Common
Communism
Ecological
Else
Family
Family Values
Harmonies
Hostility
Ideologies
Intimacy
Modernity
Moral
Nature
Nostalgia
Nothing
Primitive
Rhythms
Shared
Solidarity
Sustainability
Values
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A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?
~ Steven Pinker
Arbitrary
Believe
Change
Change The World
Curse
Ever
Foundation
Gone
Knock
Label
Linguistics
Looking
Magic
Many
Nothing
Otherwise
People
Prayer
Say
Spell
Think
Without
Wood
Word
World
Would
Wrong
You
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