You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? — 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
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
“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
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
