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I think one of the great hist...

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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In my experience, many Americ...

In my experience, many Americans think of religion as important and want to do whatever they can to support it. But if you ask them what they themselves believe, you'll find they're very uncertain about their religious beliefs. They don't actually accept the theology of their official church.

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Science merely amplifies the ...

Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.

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I love grand opera. I can't h...

I love grand opera. I can't hear 'La Boheme' without dissolving.

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The more the universe seems c...

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

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Whatever faith you have you o...

Whatever faith you have you ought to be willing to confront it with the discoveries of science. There's something ignoble about not being willing to look at what we've found about the way the world is and trying to reconcile it with whatever you've decided to believe in for yourself.

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I'm afraid that it's not poss...

I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.

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I would not want to be a lead...

I would not want to be a leader of a country that had launched ICBMs against the United States.

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I used to read a good deal of...

I used to read a good deal of science fiction when I was a boy.

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When you do calculations usin...

When you do calculations using quantum mechanics, even when you are calculating something perfectly sensible like the energy of an atomic state, you get an answer that is infinite. This means you are wrong - but how do you deal with that? Is there something wrong with the theory, or something wrong with the way you are doing the calculation?

Steven Weinberg 84 quotes

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1...

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

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The most influential utopian ...

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.

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The effort to understand the ...

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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One thing that is clearly not...

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

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If any one idea can justly be...

If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.

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My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Tre...

My Ph.D. thesis, with Sam Treiman as adviser, was on the application of renormalization theory to the effects of strong interactions in weak interaction processes.

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Symmetry principles are princ...

Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of view in certain ways.

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It's very difficult to convin...

It's very difficult to convince other countries that they shouldn't pursue nuclear weapons programs if we ourselves are actively developing a component of a strategic defense system.

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Even though I knew pretty ear...

Even though I knew pretty early that I was going to be a scientist, it wasn't the science that interested me in science fiction; it was the vision of future societies that, for better or worse, would be radically different from our own.

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Our mistake is not that we ta...

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

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