“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.” — 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
Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable that mind enters into our awareness of nature on two separate levels. At the highest level, the level of… — 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
The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . .… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this… — 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
