Steven Weinberg Religion Quotations

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

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

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

It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.