Home / Quotes / Quote by Steven Weinberg

Quote by Steven Weinberg

“If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.”

Quote by Steven Weinberg

Work

This book delves into the challenges and opportunities of confronting one's fears and insecurities to achieve personal development and fulfillment. more

Author

Steven Weinberg

Steven Weinberg is a renowned theoretical physicist known for his contributions to particle physics and cosmology. In 1967, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow, for their work on the unification of the weak interaction. more

You May Also Like

“In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism. You have to be very learned to be that wrong.”

Trying Social Heard Involved Members Vote Congress Bother Postmodernism Lobbying Testifying Constructivism

Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up

“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.”

Children Hard Reason Culture Judging Exercise Adults Core Reserves Sooner Or Later Stubborn Urgency

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Everything which the economist takes from you in the way of life and humanity, he restores to you in the form of money and wealth.”

Way Form Humanity Wealth Economist

Book:Sincerity and Authenticity

Source: Sincerity and Authenticity

“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.”

Mind Saws Greater Constitution Tendencies Poetry Is Faculty Indigenous

Book:Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

Source: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)

“Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.”

“It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.”

Ifs One Thing Errors Metaphor Accepted Statements Latter Absurdity Literal Allegory

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”

“After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.”

Taken Tragic Curtains Happy Endings

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.”

Thinking Men Believe Asks Attitude Quality Support Virtue Particular Circumstances Advantage Complexes Humanism Definitions Tolerance Prize Cherish Flexibility Stature Amenities

Author:Lionel Trilling

“We have all in some degree become anarchistic.”

Author:Lionel Trilling