Steven Weinberg

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.

Steven Weinberg

It seems to me that to understand these early Greeks, it is better to think of them not as physicists or scientists or even philosophers, but as poets.

Steven Weinberg

It was essential for the discovery of science that religious ideas be divorced from the study of nature.

Steven Weinberg

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

Steven Weinberg

Most scientists I know don’t care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

Steven Weinberg

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians,

Steven Weinberg

Nothing about the practice of modern science is obvious to someone who has never seen it done.

Steven Weinberg

Nothing in physics seems so hopeful to as the idea that it is possible for a theory to have a high degree of symmetry was hidden from us in everyday life. The physicist’s task is to find this deeper symmetry.

Steven Weinberg

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

Steven Weinberg

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.

Steven Weinberg