Freeman Dyson

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

— Freeman Dyson

You could say science also is an art.

— Freeman Dyson

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

— Freeman Dyson

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

— Freeman Dyson

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

— Freeman Dyson

Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

— Freeman Dyson

Committees do harm merely by existing.

— Freeman Dyson

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

— Freeman Dyson

Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

— Freeman Dyson

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

— Freeman Dyson

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

— Freeman Dyson

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can…

— Freeman Dyson

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

— Freeman Dyson

Computer models of the climate…[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

— Freeman Dyson

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

— Freeman Dyson

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

— Freeman Dyson

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to…

— Freeman Dyson

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

— Freeman Dyson

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the…

— Freeman Dyson

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does…

— Freeman Dyson

As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in…

— Freeman Dyson

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term…

— Freeman Dyson

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we…

— Freeman Dyson

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all…

— Freeman Dyson

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing…

— Freeman Dyson

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about…

— Freeman Dyson

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology…

— Freeman Dyson

The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total…

— Freeman Dyson

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress…

— Freeman Dyson

Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to…

— Freeman Dyson

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become…

— Freeman Dyson

It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. And people who rely on the media, like Mr. Trump,…

— Freeman Dyson

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when…

— Freeman Dyson

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference…

— Freeman Dyson

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.…

— Freeman Dyson

In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe…

— Freeman Dyson

From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction…

— Freeman Dyson

Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel…

— Freeman Dyson

Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the…

— Freeman Dyson

“It is remarkable that mind enters into our awareness of nature on two separate levels. At the highest level, the level of…

— Freeman Dyson