Steven Weinberg Quotes

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

Steven Weinberg

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• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • World
  • Science
  • Popular

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Long
  • Political
  • Science

• The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Science
  • Sea
  • Weather

• One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Science

• Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Game

• I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • Science
  • Literature

• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the 'Aha.' Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Art
  • Job
  • Reality

• Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Great
  • Long
  • Power

• My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

  

  David Chalmers
  • Science

• For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Political
  • Science

• Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Science

• My friends have said, 'Wait, you're pretty, and you sing? What do you mean you're interested in science?' I have to just hold my head and go, 'Do you hear yourself?' By no means should you ever limit yourself because of what others think or because of their perceptions of what someone looks like in a certain field.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Science

• Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Science

• People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?

  

  Anohni
  • People
  • Political
  • Science

• Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.

  

  Burton Richter
  • Model

• People can grow from adversity as much as they do from prosperity.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • People
  • Adversity

• There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

  

  John Calvin
  • Confidence

• I like people.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People

• 3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

  

  Peter Diamandis

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

  

  Steven Weinberg
  • Science
  • Superstition
  • Functions