Steven Weinberg

"Gratitude transforms perspective and happiness."

"Creativity blooms in minds open to possibilities."

"Justice delayed is justice denied."

"Patience is the test of character."

"Kindness echoes through generations."

"Strength is built through overcoming adversity."

"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."

"Religion is an insult to morality. It says, instead of 'Don't steal, don't kill' the law says you must follow God. But a man can say 'I used to think it was wrong to kill, but God told me to do it.'"

"You take the good with the bad, and when you get old you realize there was more good than bad."

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

"Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible to not believe in God."

"I wanted to find an explanation of why I'm here, why the world is constructed the way it is. But I don't think we're going to find a cosmological explanation."

"One of the great historical contributions of science is not just the discoveries themselves, but the way of thinking that led to those discoveries."

"The universe doesn't care what we want. We have to understand it on its own terms."

"I think it is a remarkable fact that all the phenomena of nature, all the properties of matter, can be explained in terms of a few simple forces acting between elementary particles."

"In the history of human knowledge there have been just a few revolutions, sudden shifts in perspective that have transformed science."

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

"The beauty of theoretical physics is that you can work on the biggest problems with pencil and paper."

"If there is a God, there's a chance I'll be facing His wrath, but I think it's more likely I'll just be dead."

"I don't see any need to invoke the supernatural."

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

"Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness."

"As we have learned from quantum mechanics, nature is fundamentally probabilistic, not deterministic."

"I think that any honest assessment of the origin of the universe would have to admit that it's a hard problem."

"The laws of nature are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece."

"Tradition! Tradition! But we are not bound by tradition if we are to be faithful to the truth."

"We are living in an era of rapid change and we should take that for granted."

"Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense."

"One of the things that's clear is that the fundamental laws of physics do not distinguish between past and future."

"If we ever do find a final theory of physics, it will be infinitely more interesting than the answer alone."