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My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

Steven Weinberg

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Steven Weinberg
Age: 88 †
Born: 1933
Born: May 3
Died: 2021
Died: July 23
Cosmologist
Physicist
Theoretical Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
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[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.
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I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
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Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.
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Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.
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As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.
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