For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate. — 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
We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian... It is probably not an accident that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.… — 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
Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — 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
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Have felt it myself. The glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress. — 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
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries. — 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
