I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That’s a good thing.
About Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinbergwas an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.
He held the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments.
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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it’s like that, then I want out.
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An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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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.
American theoretical physicist (1933-2021)