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Steven Weinberg — Portrait after a picture by Larry D. Moore (CC BY 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Steven Weinberg

American theoretical physicist

1933–2021

5 quotes, most often on Science.

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.
Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)
- Anti-Religion
It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.
Physics Today (November 2005) page 35
- Science
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
The First Three Minutes (1977), Epilogue
- Science
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
The First Three Minutes (1977; second edition 1993) (1993), Epilogue, p. 155
- Science
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we’re so interested in them.
“Elementary particles and the laws of Physics” in The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (1987)
- Science

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