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Steven Weinberg


Born
in New York City, The United States
May 03, 1933

Died
July 23, 2021

Genre
Science


Steven Weinberg (1933-2021) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.

He held the Josey Regental Chair in Science at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a member of the Physics and Astronomy Departments. His research on elementary particles and physical cosmology was honored with numerous prizes and awards, including in 1979 the Nobel Prize in Physics and in 1991 the National Medal of Science. In 2004 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, with a citation that said he was "considered by many to be the preemine ...more

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To Explain the World: The D...
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Third Thoughts
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The Discovery of Subatomic ...
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Cosmology
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The Quantum Theory of Field...
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“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.”
― Steven Weinberg
tags: atheism, bible, god, religion
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“Religion is an insult to human dignity. 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.”
― Steven Weinberg
tags: religion
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“All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically”
― Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory: The Search for The Fundamental Laws of Nature
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