Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in… — 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
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations. — 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
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee… — 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
Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I had the good luck a few years ago to visit the archeological site of Zippori in Israel ... I could see… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when… — 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
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