The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish. — 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
We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems… — 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
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
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
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
Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was… — 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
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.” — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
“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
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share
