Steven Weinberg Quotes

Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

I know that I derive the same kind of spiritual fulfillment from what I do, being a planetary scientist, seeing our exploration of the solar system come to fruition. I get such a spiritual high from it that I don't even see the need for religion.

I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

Claiming my right to follow whethersoever science should lead... it is as respectable to be modified monkey as modified dirt.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?

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

The observations and experiments of science are so wonderful that the truth that they establish can surely be accepted as another manifestation of God. God shows himself by allowing man to establish truth.

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

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 in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it.

It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.