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Steven Weinberg Quotes: The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
         

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.


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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 word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.

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 word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.


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It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!


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Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God


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All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically


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I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.


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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 civilization.

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 civilization.


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This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition


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The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.


Steven Weinberg

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If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.


Steven Weinberg

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All beauty is sad. [...] For it fades.


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