...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and… — 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
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
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
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
