34 Quotes by Victor J. Stenger

The most fundamental laws of physics are not restrictions on the behaviour of matter. Rather, they are restrictions on the way physicists may describe that behaviour.

We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that require a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the even...Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

When people start using science to argue for their specific beliefs and delusions, to try to claim that they’re supported by science, then scientists at least have to speak up and say, You re welcome to your delusions, but don’t say that they’re supported by science.