Freeman Dyson

The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own…

— Freeman Dyson

I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and…

— Freeman Dyson

As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our…

— Freeman Dyson

It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another…

— Freeman Dyson

If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at…

— Freeman Dyson

I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we...…

— Freeman Dyson

The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as…

— Freeman Dyson

That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for…

— Freeman Dyson

[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

Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in…

— Freeman Dyson

The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,…

— Freeman Dyson

For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it,…

— Freeman Dyson

We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places,…

— Freeman Dyson

I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and…

— Freeman Dyson

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

The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an…

— Freeman Dyson

Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has…

— Freeman Dyson

The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget…

— Freeman Dyson

I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of…

— Freeman Dyson

If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to…

— Freeman Dyson

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the…

— Freeman Dyson

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

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

— Freeman Dyson

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then…

— Freeman Dyson

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and…

— Freeman Dyson

For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,…

— Freeman Dyson

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they…

— Freeman Dyson

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems…

— Freeman Dyson

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance…

— Freeman Dyson

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

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's…

— Freeman Dyson

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

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religious…

— Freeman Dyson

Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only…

— Freeman Dyson

Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens…

— Freeman Dyson

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

In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement between our calculated numbers and his measured numbers. He…

— Freeman Dyson

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But…

— Freeman Dyson

Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people,…

— Freeman Dyson

When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and…

— Freeman Dyson