Steven Weinberg Quotes

United States, Scientist
May 3, 1933 – July, 23, 2021.

Steven Weinberg ForMemRS was 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.

The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.

Steven Weinberg
It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

Steven Weinberg

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Steven Weinberg
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.

Steven Weinberg
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Steven Weinberg
Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

Steven Weinberg
In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Steven Weinberg
Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God.

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- God
- Believe
- Science

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

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- Invisible
- Alike
- Existent
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition.

Steven Weinberg
My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

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- Action
- Advice
- Messes