In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets. - Steven Weinberg

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Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

Steven Weinberg

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

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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.

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Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

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The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

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This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world. Even worse, there often seems to be a general agreement that certain phenomena are just not fit subjects for respectable theoretical and experimental effort.

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It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

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