It does not help that some politicians and journalists assume the public is interested only in those aspects of science that promise immediate practical applications to technology or medicine.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

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

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

It was one time when people thought the value of the fine structure constant was important. Now of course it's still important, of course, as a practical matter,but we now know that the value it has is a function, that in any fundamental theory you derive the fine structure constant as a function of all sorts of mass ratios and so on and it's not really that fundamental.