Steven Weinberg

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

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.

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.

Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.

The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.

Everything works out the way the universe wants it to work out.