Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them. — 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
Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own… — 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
