Branches Quote by Freeman Dyson

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

“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 architecture, the…

— 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 were impossible.

— Freeman Dyson

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

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

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

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