Steven Weinberg Quotes

You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a conflict but many people in this country coexist in both worlds.

To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.

I will tell you that I'm not religious.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I am an atheist (or at best a Unitarian who winds up in church quite a lot).

Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

Go ahead and believe in God , if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.

Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

I'm not a religious person at all.

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

I'm an atheist.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.

I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.