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.
—Steven Weinberg
Topics: Science, Scientists
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
—Steven Weinberg
Topics: Experts, Professionalism
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it 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.
—Steven Weinberg
Topics: Atheism, Religion
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
—Steven Weinberg
Topics: The Universe, Universe
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- Hans Bethe American Physicist
- Richard Feynman American Physicist
- Murray Gell-Mann American Physicist
- Daniel Kahneman American-Israeli Psychologist, Economist
- Glenn T. Seaborg American Chemist
- Barbara McClintock American Geneticist
- Amos Tversky Israeli Cognitive Psychologist
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Indian-American Astrophysicist
- Maria Mitchell American Astronomer
- Edward Teller American Nuclear Physicist
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