Freeman Dyson

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source…

— Freeman Dyson

“It is impossible to make real progress in technology without gambling.”

— Freeman Dyson

“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.”

— Freeman Dyson

“I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its…

— Freeman Dyson

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

— Freeman Dyson

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

— Freeman Dyson

The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they…

— Freeman Dyson

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are…

— Freeman Dyson

When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and…

— Freeman Dyson

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first…

— Freeman Dyson

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

— Freeman Dyson

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

— Freeman Dyson

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open…

— Freeman Dyson

Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence…

— Freeman Dyson

Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them,…

— Freeman Dyson

Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in…

— Freeman Dyson

Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.

— Freeman Dyson

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

— Freeman Dyson

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

— Freeman Dyson

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who…

— Freeman Dyson

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

— Freeman Dyson

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

— Freeman Dyson

“The reason Dick 's physics was so hard for ordinary people to grasp was that he did not use equations. The usual…

— Freeman Dyson

Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about…

— Freeman Dyson

“It is remarkable that mind enters into our awareness of nature on two separate levels. At the highest level, the level of…

— Freeman Dyson