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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.

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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