Steven Weinberg Quotes

The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

I think maths is the root of everything. If we understood every area of math, it would lead to improving our sense of science, physics, engineering, space travel... all those great things. Maths is a backbone for it.

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

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.

Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

No one really understands quantum mechanics.

Then we'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

One could perhaps describe the situation by saying that God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.