The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half… — 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
The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be… — 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
Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is… — 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
