Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science-that it has made it possible for people not to be religious.
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civil… - Steven Weinberg
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civil…
- Steven Weinberg
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. - Steven Weinberg
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary. - Steven Weinberg
Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Steven Weinberg
The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.
It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of … - Steven Weinberg
It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of …
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… - 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…
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically - Steven Weinberg
All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically
As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes incre… - Steven Weinberg
As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes incre…
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, b… - Steven Weinberg
If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, b…
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