Steven Weinberg Quotes

It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.

Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!

I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

Science is to do research because of the target's fascinating and interesting characteristics.

Many of my friends are scientists.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

Research in the natural sciences operates in successive approximations. We are glad to be able to offer many good problems for research by generations to come.

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science … it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

Science is the topography of ignorance.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).