I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Almost everything about the universe is astounding. I think the most amazing thing is how gifted we are - we are only… — 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
For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it,… — 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
I think the biggest misconception about mathematics is that everybody has to learn it. That seems to be a complete mistake. All… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if… — 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
If you're in the business world, that's what's expected: You should go bust and then start again on something else. So it's… — 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
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
I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we...… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. And people who rely on the media, like Mr. Trump,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns… — 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
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
