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“I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.”

Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist

Closing statements of presentation at Beyond Belief : Science, Religion, Reason and Survival (5 November 2006)
Context: There are those whose views about religion are not very different from my own, but who nevertheless feel that we should try to damp down the conflict, that we should compromise it. … I respect their views and I understand their motives, and I don't condemn them, but I'm not having it. To me, the conflict between science and religion is more important than these issues of science education or even environmentalism. I think the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief; and anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done, and may in fact be our greatest contribution to civilization.

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg (1933) American theoretical physicist

„Ha a világnak nincs is a tudomány által felfedezhető értelme, mi emberek adhatunk neki azzal, ahogyan élünk, hogy szeretjük egymást, hogy megtudunk dolgokat a természetről, hogy művészi alkotásokat hozunk létre. Bár nem vagyunk egy kozmikus dráma főszereplői, abban a színjátékban, amelyet mi hozunk létre előrehaladásunkkal, mi játsszuk a fő szerepet. Nem elhanyagolható, hogy miközben egy rideg, személytelen univerzummal nézünk szembe, a melegség, a szeretet, a tudomány, a művészetek egy kis szigetét hozzuk létre. Ez a szerep nem teljesen érdemtelen arra, hogy eljátsszuk.”

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Steven Weinberg (1933) amerikai fizikus

Forrás: Frankenberry: The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words, 2008
Original: (Forrás: Frankenberry: The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words, 2008)

„Amikor azt látjuk, hogy a tudósok újra meg újra változtatnak véleményükön a kísérletezés és a matematikai elemzés számára megközelíthető kérdésekben, ez arra is figyelmeztet bennünket, hogy soha ne adjuk a büntetőbíráskodás hatalmát semmiféle vallási intézmény kezébe, amely kérdőjelek nélkül nyilatkozik az emberi tapasztalatokon túli dolgokról.”

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Steven Weinberg (1933) amerikai fizikus

„A világmindenség megértésére fordított erőfeszítés egyike4 annak a kevés dolognak, ami az emberi életet valamelyest a komédia szintje fölé emeli, és juttat neki valamit a tragédia bájából.”

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Steven Weinberg (1933) amerikai fizikus

Source: Simon Singh: A Nagy Bumm. Park Könyvkiadó Kft., 2006. p. 7. ISBN 978-963-530-725-8

„Tételezzük föl, hogy Galilei valóban eretnek volt - hogy nemcsak az égitestek mozgásáról volt véleménye, hanem a mennybemenetelről is eretnek nézeteket vallott. Sőt tegyük fel, hogy istenkáromló volt, és ateista tanokat hirdetett. Ha ezek közül bármelyik vagy mindez együtt igaz lett volna, akkor az egyház teljes joggal szállhatott volna szembe a tanításaival, de még ekkor is hiba lett volna kínzással fenyegetni vagy bebörtönözni őt.”

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„Jó emberek jó dolgokat csinálnak, rossz emberek rossz dolgokat csinálnak, de ahhoz, hogy jó emberek rosszat tegyenek, a vallásra van szükség.”

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Forrás: R.Hahn Veronika: Isten megbecsülné az őszinte kétkedőket; Népszabadság 2007.szept. 8.

“Security is a kind of death.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

“All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes — and woman accepts the proposal!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!
Amanda, Scene Six
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger — anything that can blow your candles out!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
Tom, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“I wish you were my sister. I'd teach you to have some confidence in yourself. The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here. They're common as — weeds, but — you — well, you're — Blue Roses!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”

Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

The Timeless World of Play http://books.google.com/books?id=Rp3TJUCT9soC&q=%22Snatching+the+eternal+out+of+the+desperately+fleeting+is+the+great+magic+trick+of+human+existence%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage, an introductory essay to The Rose Tattoo (1951)

“I believe in the future of television! I wish to be ready to go up right along with it. Therefore I'm planning to get in on the ground floor. In fact I've already made the right connections and all that remains is for the industry itself to get under way! Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzp!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Power!
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South — barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! — stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room — encouraged by one in-law to visit another — little birdlike women without any nest — eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Amanda, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“The sort of life which I had previous to this popular success was one that required endurance, a life of clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers to every inch of rock higher than the one caught hold of before, but it was a good life because it was the sort of life for which the human organism is created. I was not aware of how much vital energy had gone into this struggle until the struggle was removed. I was out on a level plateau with my arm still thrashing and my lungs still grabbing at air that no longer resisted. This was security at last. I sat down and looked about me and was suddenly very depressed.”

Tennessee Williams book The Catastrophe of Success

page 15
The Catastrophe of Success (1945)

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”

Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
The Rose Tattoo (1951)

“Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Laura, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!”

Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke

Alma, Scene Twelve
Summer and Smoke (1948)

“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Tom, Scene Four
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

"I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer," (1977), from New Selected Essays: Where I Live, ed. John S. Bak and John Lahr (New Directions Publishing, 2009)