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
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — 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
The brain, being analog, is able to grasp images so much better. The brain is just designed for comparing images and some… — 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
Just because you see pictures of glaciers falling into the ocean doesn't mean anything bad is happening. This is something that happens… — 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
I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Mostly I'm just writing books for the public, and so I try to describe for the public what the choices are, what… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than… — 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
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
