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)
The Higgs boson completes the standard model, like the last piece of a puzzle.
My last words? Keep questioning the universe.
The more we understand the universe, the more pointless it seems.
Science does not make it impossible to believe in God, but it does make it possible to do without believing in God.
The universe is an awful lot of nothing, but it's very well organized nothing.
The experience of science is not just a matter of observing and experimenting; it is also a matter of thinking and imagining.
One of the most important things we can do for our children is to teach them to be skeptical.
The final theory will not be a theory of everything, but a theory of nothing.
The value of science is not that it gives us answers, but that it forces us to ask questions.
The laws of nature are not a matter of human convention, but a matter of objective reality.
The history of science is the history of the gradual realization that the world is not as it seems.
The most important thing in science is not to get the right answer, but to ask the right question.
The universe is a machine, and we are part of it.
The purpose of science is not to prove anything, but to find out what is true.
The scientific method is the only way to understand the world.
The beauty of science is that it is always changing.
The universe is not designed for us.
The most important lesson that science can teach us is humility.
The universe is a vast and mysterious place.
The laws of physics are not arbitrary, but are a consequence of the underlying structure of reality.
Contemporaries of Steven Weinberg
Other Physicss born within 50 years of Steven Weinberg (1933–2021).