Steven Weinberg

In the study of anything outside human affairs, including the study of complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

Steven Weinberg

My advice is to go for the messes – that’s where the action is.

Steven Weinberg

In our universe we are tuned into the frequency that corresponds to physical reality. But there are an infinite number of parallel realities coexisting with us in the same room, although we cannot tune into them.

Steven Weinberg

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

Steven Weinberg

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Steven Weinberg

A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo’s evasion of teaching duties.

Steven Weinberg

A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word ‘hermeneutics’ in the dictionary.

Steven Weinberg

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

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically.

Steven Weinberg

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Steven Weinberg