Freeman Dyson

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

— Freeman Dyson

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

— Freeman Dyson

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

— Freeman Dyson

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

— Freeman Dyson

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

— Freeman Dyson

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

— Freeman Dyson

I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

— Freeman Dyson

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

— Freeman Dyson

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

— Freeman Dyson

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we…

— Freeman Dyson

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all…

— Freeman Dyson

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does…

— Freeman Dyson

As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in…

— Freeman Dyson

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the…

— Freeman Dyson

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term…

— Freeman Dyson

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

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

— Freeman Dyson

I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing…

— Freeman Dyson

Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.…

— Freeman Dyson

Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we…

— Freeman Dyson

The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The…

— Freeman Dyson

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around…

— Freeman Dyson

The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential…

— Freeman Dyson

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become…

— Freeman Dyson

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

— Freeman Dyson

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

— Freeman Dyson

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

— Freeman Dyson

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

— Freeman Dyson

There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.

— Freeman Dyson

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

— Freeman Dyson

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

— Freeman Dyson

If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.

— Freeman Dyson

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

— Freeman Dyson

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

— Freeman Dyson

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

— Freeman Dyson

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to…

— Freeman Dyson

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with…

— Freeman Dyson

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

— Freeman Dyson

I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries,…

— Freeman Dyson

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be…

— Freeman Dyson