Top 100 Weinberg Quotes
#1. I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
Max Weinberg
#2. The proper measure of a philosophical system or a scientific theory is not the degree to which it anticipated modern thought, but its degree of success in treating the philosophical and scientific problems of its own day.
Steven Weinberg
#3. 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.
Steven Weinberg
#4. Other kids' parents wouldn't let them read magazines like 'Weird Tales,' but my folks were big readers themselves, so they didn't mind.
Robert Weinberg
#5. As is natural for an academic, when I want to learn about something, I volunteer to teach a course on the subject.
Steven Weinberg
#6. The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.
Steven Weinberg
#7. Intelligent design ideology being promoted today is not science - it is rather the abdication of science.
Steven Weinberg
#8. Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
Gerald Weinberg
#9. People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.
Noah Weinberg
#10. I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
Max Weinberg
#11. Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
Steven Weinberg
#12. My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.
Max Weinberg
#13. Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic ... could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.
Steven Weinberg
#14. There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm ... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.
Max Weinberg
#15. PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.
RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#16. Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.
Steven Weinberg
#17. I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.
Steven Weinberg
#18. If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse
Gerald M. Weinberg
#19. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless
Steven Weinberg
#20. People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#21. Whatever the final laws of nature may be, there is no reason to suppose that they are designed to make physicists happy.
Steven Weinberg
#22. after all, our purpose in theoretical physics is not just to describe the world as we find it, but to explain - in terms of a few fundamental principles - why the world is the way it is.
Steven Weinberg
#23. Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron divided by the product of Planck's constant and the speed of light.
Steven Weinberg
#24. There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#25. Science and technology benefit each other, but at its most fundamental level science is not undertaken for any practical reason.
Steven Weinberg
#26. All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.
George Weinberg
#27. Jane easily shifts among activities - testing for discovery, pinpointing, locating, determining significance, repairing, troubleshooting, and testing to learn. As long as she continues to serve her customers, it doesn't really matter which task she performs at any given time.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#28. If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.
Steven Weinberg
#29. Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.
Noah Weinberg
#30. Because dying for God is a higher pleasure ... than living without Him.
Noah Weinberg
#31. It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.
Steven Weinberg
#32. I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.
Max Weinberg
#33. The universe is an enormous direct product of representations of symmetry groups.
Steven Weinberg
#34. We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.
George Weinberg
#35. As for me, I have just enough confidence about the multiverse to bet the lives of both Andrei Linde and Martin Rees's dog.
Steven Weinberg
#36. It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.
Steven Weinberg
#37. Finally, there is a more subtle relation among F, E, and V.
Steven Weinberg
#38. The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.
Max Weinberg
#39. I think 'Bat Out Of Hell' will probably last forever.
Max Weinberg
#40. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.
Steven Weinberg
#41. I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others.
George Weinberg
#42. Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it.
Noah Weinberg
#43. Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.
Steven Weinberg
#44. I am very proud of being the one to have coined the word.
George Weinberg
#45. If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.
Steven Weinberg
#46. The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.
Steven Weinberg
#47. I don't need to argue here that the evil in the world proves that the universe is not designed, but only that there are no signs of benevolence that might have shown the hand of a designer.
Steven Weinberg
#48. What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
George Weinberg
#49. The progress of science has been largely a matter of discovering what questions should be asked.
Steven Weinberg
#50. All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically
Steven Weinberg
#51. There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the efforts of any one physicist, but because of a flowering of many seeds of theory, most of them planted long ago.
Steven Weinberg
#52. Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
Steven Weinberg
#54. It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress.
George Weinberg
#55. It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?
Steven Weinberg
#58. It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.
Steven Weinberg
#59. This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
Steven Weinberg
#60. My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.
George Weinberg
#61. Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In
Gerald M. Weinberg
#62. An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Steven Weinberg
#63. Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few simple principles.
Steven Weinberg
#64. It seems to me that to understand these early Greeks, it is better to think of them not as physicists or scientists or even philosophers, but as poets.
Steven Weinberg
#66. My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.
Steven Weinberg
#67. The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
George Weinberg
#68. Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#70. Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary,
Steven Weinberg
#71. I was a really crazy kid. I'm still a crazy kid. That's the nice thing about being in a rock band. You can feel 14 forever.
Max Weinberg
#72. One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#73. I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.
Robert Weinberg
#74. You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.
George Weinberg
#75. When is the 'look out the windshield phase' of driving? Pretty much all driving is looking out the windshield! It's not a phase. Saying 'testing takes too long' is a bit like saying 'safe driving takes too long.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#76. My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have ... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.
Max Weinberg
#77. It was essential for the discovery of science that religious ideas be divorced from the study of nature.
Steven Weinberg
#78. It is not only in medicine that persons in authority will resist any investigation that might reduce their authority.
Steven Weinberg
#79. Problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way.
Gerald M. Weinberg
#80. When I got tired of going to school, I was kind of overqualified for a lot of jobs. Kind of underqualified for a lot of others.
Robert Weinberg
#81. There is an important feature of modern science that is almost completely missing in all the thinkers I have mentioned, from Thales to Plato: none of them attempted to verify or even (aside perhaps from Zeno) seriously to justify their speculations. In
Steven Weinberg
#82. 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.
Steven Weinberg
#83. I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.
George Weinberg
#84. Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
Steven Weinberg
#85. It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers - not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.
Steven Weinberg
#86. It appears that anything you say about the way that theory and experiment may interact is likely to be correct, and anything you say about the way that theory and experiment must interact is likely to be wrong.
Steven Weinberg
#87. Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.
George Weinberg
#88. Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
George Weinberg
#89. They Have a Negative Attitude and Pessimistic Outlook
Mike Weinberg
#90. It is almost irrestible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning.
Steven Weinberg
#91. [C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ... , the most dangerous adversaries of science.
Steven Weinberg
#92. An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.
George Weinberg
#93. We are constantly creating ourselves by what we move toward or away from.
George Weinberg
#94. Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.
Steven Weinberg
#95. I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!
Steven Weinberg
#96. Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
Steven Weinberg
#98. If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One
Gerald M. Weinberg
#99. No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other.
George Weinberg
#100. Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God
Steven Weinberg
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