Freeman Dyson Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Freeman Dyson on Wise Famous Quotes.
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
That was the wonderful thing about Ramanujan. He discovered so much, and yet he left so much more in his garden for other people to discover.
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.
If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
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 to be right.
[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.
There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
Scientists who become icons must not only be geniuses but also performers, playing to the crowd and enjoying public acclaim.
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.
Vegetation is really controlling what happens ... whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.
To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.