Steven Weinberg Atheist Quotations

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.

Its a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science-that it has made it possible for people not to be religious.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.