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Сти́вен Ва́йнберг — американский физик, лауреат Нобелевской премии по физике в 1979 году «за вклад в объединённую теорию слабых и электромагнитных взаимодействий между элементарными частицами, в том числе предсказание слабых нейтральных токов».

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„Религия оскорбляет достоинство человека. Есть она или нет, добрые люди будут творить добро, а дурные — зло. А вот чтобы заставить доброго человека совершить зло — тут без религии не обойтись.“

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.
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» — гл. 7.
Источник: Freethought of the Day: May 3rd http://web.archive.org/web/20101218085911/http://ffrf.org/day/view/05/03/#steven-weinberg

„Вероятно, я кажусь белой вороной среди современных ученых, когда проявляю интерес к подобным вещам. В тех редких случаях, когда за обедом или за чаем заходит разговор о религии, самая сильная реакция, которую выражает большинство моих коллег-физиков, увидев, что кто-то все еще способен серьезно обсуждать эти проблемы, – это тихое удивление и улыбка. Многие физики сохраняют номинальное уважение к вере своих родителей, как к форме этнической идентификации, а также как к обряду, полезному при свадьбах и похоронах, но мало кто из них уделяет внимание теологическим проблемам. Я знаком с двумя специалистами по общей теории относительности, являющимися набожными католиками, несколькими физиками-теоретиками, благоговейно относящимися к иудаизму, одним православным экспериментатором, одним теоретиком – убежденным приверженцем ислама и математиком, получающим указания свыше в англиканской церкви. Нет сомнения, что есть и много других глубоко религиозных физиков, с которыми я незнаком, или которые скрывают свои религиозные убеждения. Но, насколько я могу судить по собственным впечатлениям, большинство физиков сегодня интересуются религией недостаточно даже для того, чтобы их можно было считать действующими атеистами.“

„Некоторые используют слово «бог» настолько широко и щедро, что неизбежно находят бога везде, куда бы ни взглянули. Нередко слышишь фразы: «Бог — совокупность всего», «Бог — лучшая часть человеческой природы», «Бог — это Вселенная.»“

Безусловно, слову «бог», как и всякому другому, можно придать любое желаемое значение. Если вам угодно провозгласить, что бог — это энергия, вы найдёте бога и в куске угля.
«Мечты об окончательной теории»
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» (2006) // пер. с англ. Н. Смелковой. — М: КоЛибри (Иностранка), 2008. — гл. 1.

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“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)
Контексте: 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)
Контексте: 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)
Контексте: 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)
Контексте: 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)
Контексте: 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)
Контексте: 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

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