Steven Weinberg

“The first three minutes of the universe are the most important. Everything that has happened since has been a footnote.”

“I think the universe is probably indifferent.”

“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.”

“All that is needed is a few clumsy phrases in a holy book, and you have the ethical basis for a holocaust.”

“It is positively spooky how the world is understandable.”

“An important lesson of science is that we are not the center of the universe.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Science does not make it impossible to be a Christian, but it does make it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled Christian.”

“I think that science is one of the very few human activities that is truly progressive.”