It's like Feynman says, physics is like sex — it may give practical results, but that's not why we do it.
You are a good person because you fear damnation. I am a good person without obligation.
--Guillermo Garcia
"An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral, and the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters. But are we to forgo all this progress because Mr. Brady now frightens us with a fable!?" --Spencer Tracy (Inherit the Wind)
"Without it (religion), you'd have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
--Steven Weinberg
(1979 Nobel Prize winning Physicist)
I always thought that religion was like hair color, in that you're born with it and you can change it later. But I never realized that going bald was an option.
It's like Feynman says, physics is like sex — it may give practical results, but that's not why we do it.
You are a good person because you fear damnation. I am a good person without obligation.
--Guillermo Garcia
"An idea is a greater monu...