Steven Weinberg Quotes

Whoever invented God is an idiot. God is absolutely man's worst invention.

Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with any propriety be called "God", it does seem antecedently very improbable that weak and limited creatures of a day, such as we are, should discover Him by our own efforts.... who could be discovered in that way would hardly be worth discovering. I think we ought to stick to that principle rather firmly. I think we ought to be rather sure that we cannot know God unless God has been pleased to reveal Himself to us.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

It is straightforward — and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would never have given us religion.

I don't think God is an explanation at all. It's simply redescribing the problem.

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Make philosophy thy journey, theology thy journey's end: philosophy is a pleasant way, but dangerous to him that either tires or retires; in this journey it is safe neither to loiter nor to rest, till thou hast attained thy journey's end; he that sits down a philosopher rises up an atheist.

The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.

if there is a god, he sure hates people

How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so.

Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'.

I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low.

I am an atheist... I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

Religion! O Diabole! Fie, I am asham'd, however that I seem, To think a word of such simple sound, Of such great matter should be made the ground.