For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source… — 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
In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.… — 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
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 point of fact is, just in simple ways, you can see how much better things have gotten. I mean, when I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 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