If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Computer models of the climate…[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 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 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
From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction… — 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
The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it.… — 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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