Quotes of Steven Weinberg - somelinesforyou

“ With or without religion, 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. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil that takes religion. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil that takes religion. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Religion is an insult to human dignity. 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. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Before history there was science, of a sort. At any moment nature presents us with a variety of puzzling phenomena: fire, thunderstorms, plagues, planetary motion, light, tides, and so on. Observation of the world led to useful generalizations: fires are hot; thunder presages rain; tides are highest when the Moon is full or new, and so on. These became part of the common sense of mankind. But here and there, some people wanted more than just a collection of facts. They wanted to explain the world. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ We know how many mistakes we've made. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ We know how many mistakes we've made. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ We know how many mistakes we've made. ”

- Steven Weinberg

“ Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion. ”

- Steven Weinberg
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