Steven Weinberg - Disney Science | More Heroes,Less Prophets

Words of wisdom from one of the luminaries of 20th century physics. Absolutely delightful to listen to.

Sounds like Egon from the Ghost Busters.

Always so well-spoken and succinct. Weinberg is a great man indeed.

Where there is a Sagan, there is a Gingerich. Where there is a Weinberg, there is a Polkinghorne. Fortunately there are eloquent representatives from both sides of the atheist / believer debate. What's unfortunate is when morons from either side are propped up by their opposition as being representative of a viewpoint. Its just intellectually lazy, really.

Weinberg is a Jewish atheist. He considers himself culturally Jewish, but doesn't believe in the nonsense from the desert. How do I know? I spoke to him the day before yesterday at CERN.

And WTF is the "proportional laws of physis", "quantom mechanis" or "berrylium" or "vacuum"? Going by YouTube comments, why is it that people like you who cannot spell (yeah, say they're all typos) are typically the religious ones? It says something about your level of education or intellectual capacity.

I hate to disagree with the old smart guy... But "no one in this room will stand on the moon"- EVER- As long as we aren't SENDING PEOPLE THERE. Let's actually apply some of this science and get off this one little rock.

Dr. Weinberg is the man

well, there are levels of prophethood. i.e. Moses leading a whole nation, and Muhamed fucking underage maids....science was more advanced in the times of Muhammed so he is a lesser prophit, i mean prophet. ROFL

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The complete brilliant Weinberg lecture is above.