All Freeman Dyson Quotes
- It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And… Colonizing
- The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… Allowed
- Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… Beings
- So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. Afresh
- The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must… Architecture
- The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… Any
- There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use. Building
- The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new… Anybody
- One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate.… Barium
- I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… Athletic
- Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… Almost Certainly
- Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… According
- Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an… Activity
- A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough… Bad
- The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of… Air
- ...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full… Bad
- We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too. Atmosphere
- In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out… Global Warming
- Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came. Came
- It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models. Believe