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Steven Weinberg Quote: “The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.”

51. “The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.”

52. “A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn’t start with an invocation!”

53. “I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn’t start with an invocation!”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and ‘god’ historically has not meant the laws of nature.”

54. “If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and ‘god’ historically has not meant the laws of nature.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.”

55. “It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.”

56. “Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.”

57. “As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Einstein occasionally used “God” as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature.”

58. “Einstein occasionally used “God” as a metaphor for the unknown fundamental laws of nature.”

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Steven Weinberg Quote: “The distinction between mathematics and science is pretty well settled. It remains mysterious to us why mathematics that is invented for reasons having nothing to do with nature often turns out to be useful in physical theories. In a famous article,8 the physicist Eugene Wigner has written of “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.”

59. “The distinction between mathematics and science is pretty well settled. It remains mysterious to us why mathematics that is invented for reasons having nothing to do with nature often turns out to be useful in physical theories. In a famous article,8 the physicist Eugene Wigner has written of “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.”

60. “Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Issac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.”

61. “Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Issac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Plato and the neo-Platonists taught that the beauty we see in nature is a reflection of the beauty of the ultimate, the nous. For us, too, the beauty of present theories is an anticipation, a premonition, of the beauty of the final theory. And in any case, we would not accept any theory as final unless it were beautiful.”

62. “Plato and the neo-Platonists taught that the beauty we see in nature is a reflection of the beauty of the ultimate, the nous. For us, too, the beauty of present theories is an anticipation, a premonition, of the beauty of the final theory. And in any case, we would not accept any theory as final unless it were beautiful.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “There is a spooky quality about the ability of mathematicians to get there ahead of physicists. It’s as if when Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon he found in the lunar dust the footsteps of Jules Verne.”

63. “There is a spooky quality about the ability of mathematicians to get there ahead of physicists. It’s as if when Neil Armstrong first landed on the moon he found in the lunar dust the footsteps of Jules Verne.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron divided by the product of Planck’s constant and the speed of light.”

64. “Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron divided by the product of Planck’s constant and the speed of light.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.”

65. “Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.”

66. “This also serves as a warning, that science may not yet be in its final form.”

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Steven Weinberg Quote: “Mathematics is the means by which we deduce the consequences of physical principles. More than that, it is the indispensable language in which the principles of physical science are expressed.”

67. “Mathematics is the means by which we deduce the consequences of physical principles. More than that, it is the indispensable language in which the principles of physical science are expressed.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.”

68. “No thing happens in vain, but everything for a reason and by necessity.”

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Steven Weinberg Quote: “Even before the start of history, the sky must have been commonly used as a compass, a clock, and a calendar. It could not have been difficult to notice that the Sun rises every morning in more or less the same direction, that during the day one can tell how much time there is before night from the height of the Sun in the sky, and that hot weather will follow the time of year when the day lasts longest.”

69. “Even before the start of history, the sky must have been commonly used as a compass, a clock, and a calendar. It could not have been difficult to notice that the Sun rises every morning in more or less the same direction, that during the day one can tell how much time there is before night from the height of the Sun in the sky, and that hot weather will follow the time of year when the day lasts longest.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “We on earth do not feel either the gravitational field of the sun or the centrifugal force caused by the earth’s motion around the sun because the two forces balance each other, but this balance would be spoiled if one force was proportional to the mass of the objects on which it acts and the other was not; some objects might then fall off the earth into the sun and others could be thrown off the earth into interstellar space.”

70. “We on earth do not feel either the gravitational field of the sun or the centrifugal force caused by the earth’s motion around the sun because the two forces balance each other, but this balance would be spoiled if one force was proportional to the mass of the objects on which it acts and the other was not; some objects might then fall off the earth into the sun and others could be thrown off the earth into interstellar space.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “It was essential for the discovery of science that religious ideas be divorced from the study of nature.”

71. “It was essential for the discovery of science that religious ideas be divorced from the study of nature.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “The struggle in the seventh century between Roman missionaries and Irish monks for control over the English church was largely a conflict over the date of Easter.”

72. “The struggle in the seventh century between Roman missionaries and Irish monks for control over the English church was largely a conflict over the date of Easter.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.”

73. “It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.”

74. “I want to show how difficult was the discovery of modern science, how far from obvious are its practices and standards.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “There is no principle, built into the laws of nature, that says that theoretical physicists have to be happy.”

75. “There is no principle, built into the laws of nature, that says that theoretical physicists have to be happy.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “Once again I repeat: the aim pf physics at its most fundamental level is not just to describe the world but ti explain why it is the way it is.”

76. “Once again I repeat: the aim pf physics at its most fundamental level is not just to describe the world but ti explain why it is the way it is.”

— Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg Quote: “The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.”

77. “The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.”

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Steven Weinberg Quote: “The real difference between Aristarchus and today’s astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he never tried to judge the uncertainty in them, or even acknowledged that they might be imperfect.”

78. “The real difference between Aristarchus and today’s astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he never tried to judge the uncertainty in them, or even acknowledged that they might be imperfect.”

— Steven Weinberg

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