Nobel Prize in Physics, Steven Weinberg, Interview

Steven Weinberg received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979. More than 20 years after he received the Nobel Prize, he is interviewd by Joanna Rose, science writer, December 2001. In this excepert, Professor Weinberg comments on the absence of a cosmic plan for humankind and how we are governed by the laws of nature. For the complete interview, visit: http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=397

You can read Steven Weinberg's autobiography and Nobel Lecture here: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/index.html

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[videoclog]

Many thanks for this upload. I find Mr Weinberg's words very wise and stimulating. I wish we would hear views like these more often.

[frankspandrel]

Weinberg is one of the most honest and sober people I've heard speak. It's refreshing.

[brindow1]

Steven Weinberg is no guru or leader or fanatic .. he is knowledgeable yes, but he straight talking and honest .. why can't religionists be this way, why can't they be "open-minded" and simply consider other possibilities for our existence ? The difference between a religionist and a realist is that the religionist has been brainwashed[without their knowing it usually] .. that says everything, doesn't it ?

[granddad2002]

And yet there is the art of cleverness of how to decode Nature. Human beings are so removed from the precision and power of how the Universe operates; and it is a great whirling collection of people who have to go further from what is known to give us this edgy knowledge. Serendipity and wonder fraught with hard calculations, detailing an unseen picture... its the age of how we go further in thought and life. This isn't meaningless... but sublime.

[Wordlaw12]

This guy is wonderful to listen too.

[iblessedx]

HAHA this woman's hair...

[braydenbeautiful]

Steven Weinberg inspired me to do science (chemistry) at university.

The mathematics, physics and chemistry are hard, yes, but oh so rewarding.

[muzammilali007]

@farouqnimer He died in 1996. He was an Ahmadi, the follower of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Quadani who claimed to be a prophet. When the parliament of Pakistan declared Ahmadis to be non muslims in 1974 he left Pakistan and lived the rest of his life in London.

[mossfitz]

@dlerta You need to stay in more often - and read some better books

[farouqnimer]

it's rather unfortunate that Western audiences don't get to hear the views of the guy who shared the Nobel prize with him, Abdus Salam :(

[andresordo]

"I'm not certain about anything"

my thoughts exactly

[E23443]

which came first, the chicken or the egg?