Steven Weinberg — American Scientist born on May 03, 1933,

Steven Weinberg is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles... (wikipedia)

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.