Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . .… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
“I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
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