You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Everything in my life was luck. The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The nonliving universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organization that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds… — 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 Image
“It is impossible to make real progress in technology without gambling.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image