Steven Weinberg Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• 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.

  Steven Weinberg

  God, Religious, Atheist

  "Behaving Badly? Stop Using Religion as an Excuse!" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2014.

• 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

  Religious, Intelligent, People

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.242, Harvard University Press

• I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... 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.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

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

  Steven Weinberg

  Simple, Logical Arguments, Religion

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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

  Steven Weinberg

  Religion, Atheism, Seems

  The First Three Minutes epilogue (1977)

• On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religion, Balance, Atheism

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.241, Harvard University Press

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

  Steven Weinberg

  Death, Spiritual, Religious

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

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

• If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.

  Steven Weinberg

  Prayer, Pain, Taken

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

• 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

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheist, Religion

  "The Atheism Tapes", 2004.

• 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.

  Steven Weinberg

  Law, Religion, Atheism

• 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.

  Steven Weinberg

  People, Religion, Important

• I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Thinking, Historical, Religion

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