The more comprehensible the universe becomes the more pointless it seems.

Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement.

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

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

A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.