Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — 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
Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. I just enjoy calculating, and it's an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be… — 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
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
For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. — 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
Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge… — 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
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
There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . .… — 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
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
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
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
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to… — 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
