This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
Steven WeinbergJournalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.
Steven WeinbergScience doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God
Steven WeinbergIts a consequence of the experience of science. As you learn more and more about the universe, you find you can understand more and more without any reference to supernatural intervention, so you lose interest in that possibility. Most scientists I know dont care enough about religion even to call themselves atheists. And that, I think, is one of the great things about science-that it has made it possible for people not to be religious.
Steven Weinberg