Frasi di Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg
Data di nascita: 3. Maggio 1933
Steven Weinberg è un fisico statunitense.
Frasi Steven Weinberg
„È comprensibile che gran della storiografia della scienza si occupi dei suoi successi, di scoperte fortunate, di brillanti deduzioni o dei grandi, quasi magici balzi in avanti di un Newton o di un Einstein. Io ritengo però che non sia possibile capire veramente i successi della scienza se non si capisce anche quanto essi siano sofferti: quanto sia facile essere fuorviati, quanto sia difficile sapere, in ogni circostanza, qual è la prossima cosa da fare.“
— Steven Weinberg
cap. VI, p. 134
„I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.“
— Steven Weinberg
Context: There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect their views and I understand their motives, and I don't condemn them, but I'm not having it. To me, the conflict between science and religion is more important than these issues of science education or even environmentalism. I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.
Closing statements of presentation at Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival (5 November 2006)
„It is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.“
— Steven Weinberg
Context: I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it... and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.
„Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God.“
— Steven Weinberg
Context: Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God because I don't believe in God, but in the same sense that I don't like Iago, or the Reverend Slope or any of the other villains of literature, the god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god who will... who obsessed the degree to which people worship him and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way. Now I realise that many people don't believe in that any more who call themselves Muslims or Jews or Christians, but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him.
„Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.“
— Steven Weinberg
Context: Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.
„There is one constant that seems to be fine tuned...and that is dark energy.“
— Steven Weinberg
Context: There is one constant that seems to be fine tuned... and that is dark energy.
„Now I realise that many people don't believe in that any more who call themselves Muslims or Jews or Christians, but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him.“
— Steven Weinberg
Context: Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like God because I don't believe in God, but in the same sense that I don't like Iago, or the Reverend Slope or any of the other villains of literature, the god of traditional Judaism and Christianity and Islam seems to me a terrible character. He's a god who will... who obsessed the degree to which people worship him and anxious to punish with the most awful torments those who don't worship him in the right way. Now I realise that many people don't believe in that any more who call themselves Muslims or Jews or Christians, but that is the traditional God and he's a terrible character. I don't like him.
„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
Address at the Conference on Cosmic Design, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. (April 1999)
This comment is modified in a later article derived from these talks:
„All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically“
— Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory
