One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

C. "Law of Conservation of Muons" Columbia University University of California-Berkeley United States Department of Energy (through predecessor agency the Atomic Energy Commission) (Feb. Weinberg places the cancellation of the SSC in the context of a bigger national and global socio-economic crisis and not just for science.