Frases de Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg é um físico estadunidense. Recebeu em 1979 o Nobel de Física, por seu trabalho de unificação de duas forças fundamentais da natureza , em conjunto com os seus colegas Abdus Salam e Sheldon Glashow. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Maio 1933
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Steven Weinberg frases e citações

“Religião é um insulto à dignidade humana. Com ou sem ela, teríamos pessoas boas fazendo coisas boas e pessoas más fazendo coisas más. Mas para pessoas boas fazerem coisas más, precisa-se de religião.”

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.
Discurso durante a Conferência sobre Design Cósmico, Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência, Washington, D.C. (abril 1999)
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“O esforço para compreender o universo é uma das poucas coisas que eleva a vida humana um pouco acima do nível do ridículo e dá a ela um pouco da graça da tragédia.”

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
The First Three Minutes (1993)
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Steven Weinberg: Frases em inglês

“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)
Contexto: 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.

“Maybe at the very bottom of it… I really don't like God.”

The Atheism Tapes (2004)
Contexto: 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.

“It is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.”

The Atheism Tapes (2004)
Contexto: 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.

“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.”

The Atheism Tapes (2004)
Contexto: 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.”

The Atheism Tapes (2004)
Contexto: 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.”

The Atheism Tapes (2004)
Contexto: There is one constant that seems to be fine tuned... and that is dark energy.

“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.”

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:
:Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion that allowed him to justify slavery as the punishment of the children of Ham. Mark Twain described his mother as a genuinely good person, whose soft heart pitied even Satan, but who had no doubt about the legitimacy of slavery, because in years of living in antebellum Missouri she had never heard any sermon opposing slavery, but only countless sermons preaching that slavery was God's will. With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.
:* "A Designer Universe?" at PhysLink.com http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm

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

Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for the Fundamental Laws of Nature (1993), ISBN 0-09-922391-0.

“Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them.”

"Elementary particles and the laws of Physics" in The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (1987)

“A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.”

"Particle physics, from Rutherford to the LHC," Physics Today 64, no.8 (August 2011), 29-33, on 30.

“… I found that I was unable to explain the foundations of quantum mechanics in a way that I found entirely satisfactory.”

The Problems of Quantum Mechanics: Steven Weinberg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBninatwq6k (July 17, 2018) YouTube video at 3:58 of 45:42

“It doesn't work to build half an accelerator. The particles need to go all the way around.”

On The Shoulders of Giants - "The Future of Science" by Steven Weinberg, World Science Festival, YouTube, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GrjjCVk6cA