Steven Weinberg Quotes about Atheism

The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

I enjoy being at a meeting that doesn't start with an invocation!

Science should be taught not in order to support religion and not in order to destroy religion. Science should be taught simply ignoring religion.

Most scientists I know don't care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists.

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a purpose is to study the universe by the methods of science, without consoling ourselves with fairy tales about its future, or about our own.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

Premature as the question may be, it is hardly possible not to wonder whether we will find any answer to our deepest questions, any signs of the workings of an interested God, in a final theory. I think that we will not.