A Quote by Steven Weinberg

Our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough.

Steven Weinberg

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Steven Weinberg
American - Scientist
Born: May 3, 1933

This is often the way it is in physics - our mistake is not that we take our theories too seriously, but that we do not take them seriously enough. It is always hard to realize that these numbers and equations we play with at our desks have something to do with the real world. Even worse, there often seems to be a general agreement that certain phenomena are just not fit subjects for respectable theoretical and experimental effort.

Steven Weinberg

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On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

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Valentin Chmerkovskiy

We take ourselves way too seriously, and we don't take God seriously enough. It is not by accident that humor and humility come from the same root word. If you can laugh at yourself, you'll always have plenty of good material.

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Enda Kenny

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Shelley Duvall

You have to keep a sense of humor about yourself, more than anything else. You've got to take the issues very seriously, but you can't take yourself too seriously. And Washington is a city in which everybody takes themselves extraordinarily seriously.

Robert Reich

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