 | P. C. W. Davies - Religion - 1984 - 276 pages
...there a universe? 'There is a reason in Nature why something should exist rather than not.' Leibniz 'The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.' Steven Weinberg The idea of God-the-creator, who caused the universe to come into being of his own... | |
 | Paul Davies - Science - 1985 - 269 pages
...everything you can have nothing. 14 A Cosmic Plan? A rational universe Steven Weinberg once wrote, 'The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.' Weinberg is one of the world's leading theoretical physicists and has probably done more than anyone... | |
 | Milton K. Munitz - Philosophy - 1986 - 308 pages
...unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. But if there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the... | |
 | Diogenes Allen - Religion - 1989 - 256 pages
...unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. The beauty and the indifference of nature are both perceived, but they are only thought about. Nothing... | |
 | John F. Haught - Religion - 1990 - 286 pages
...unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." (Weinberg) Since the cosmos appears to many scientists to be ruled by chance and impersonal laws that... | |
 | Robert Coles - Games & Activities - 1990 - 404 pages
...a chain of accidents reaching back to the f1rst three minutes." A little later on he observes that "the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." Dr. Rizzuto knows, from her work with children, that they, too, struggle with just such a sense of... | |
 | Helen Bevington - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 234 pages
...role — all this done for us in a grand scheme of things and a Great Chain of Being. Weinberg writes, "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. The effort to understand the universe is one of the very first things that lift human life a little... | |
 | Elie Maynard Adams - Philosophy - 1993 - 218 pages
...is a prescientific, superstitious idea.13 As Steven Weinberg, the noted theoretical physicist, says: "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." 14 Religion and Modern Naturalism Although organized religion still attracts large numbers of people... | |
 | Colin E. Gunton - Religion - 1993 - 268 pages
...(London: Faber and Faber, 19691, chapter 5. M Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity, pp. 166-7. heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." Characteristically - that is, rather gnostically - Weinberg proceeds to offer the rational life, by... | |
 | Paul Davies - Science - 2008 - 182 pages
...years by Steven Weinberg, whose book The First Three Minutes culminates with the stark conclusion that "the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless." I have argued that the original fear of a slow cosmic heat death was perhaps exaggerated, and may even... | |
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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 also seems pointless. 
