149 Quotes by Steven Weinberg

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing.

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

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

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

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.

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

I don’t need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.

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.

Science doesn’t make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God.