Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that … - Steven Weinberg

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I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.

Steven Weinberg

Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic. . . could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.

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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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