Steven Weinberg
Shared the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the electroweak unification theory.
Most quoted
"It is almost irresistible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents, but that we were somehow planned from the beginning."
— from The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe, 1977
"It is almost irresistible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents, but that we were somehow planned from the start."
— from The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe, 1977
"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
— from A Designer Universe?, 1999
All quotes by Steven Weinberg (381)
Science doesn't purvey absolute truth; it builds acceptable models.
The older I get, the more I suspect that there is no final theory, only better approximations.
Religion first arose as a way to explain the world, but now it resists explanation.
Particles are just excitations of underlying fields.
The symmetry of the laws of physics is what gives them their beauty.
I have never found a compelling argument for the existence of God.
The universe is vast and we are small, but our curiosity is boundless.
In particle physics, we're chasing shadows of reality.
The Big Bang is not an explosion, but an expansion.
Humanity's greatest achievement is the scientific method.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think.
The electroweak theory unifies weak and electromagnetic forces.
Life is a cosmic accident, but a beautiful one.
Superstrings may be the key to everything, or just another dead end.
The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
I regret only that I have but one life to give to physics.
The universe doesn't owe us meaning; we have to create it.
Quantum field theory is the language of nature at its deepest level.
In the end, we are all stardust, pondering our origins.
Science thrives on doubt; faith on certainty.
Contemporaries of Steven Weinberg
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Steven Weinberg (1933–2021).