Freeman Dyson Quotes
- The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
- A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
- [On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public…
- If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
- From my childhood it has been my conviction that men would reach the planets in my lifetime . . . this conviction . . .…
- A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.
- 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…
- The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
- Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
- The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
- The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
- Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
- It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their…
- There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;…
- If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.
- All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to…
- In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of…
- We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
- To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.
- The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.