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It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
— Freeman Dyson
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.
— Freeman Dyson
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
— Freeman Dyson
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
— Freeman Dyson
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.
— Freeman Dyson
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
— Freeman Dyson
A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.
— Freeman Dyson
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.
— Freeman Dyson
The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.
— Freeman Dyson
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment. — Freeman Dyson
approached without some humor and some bewilderment. — Freeman Dyson
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
— Freeman Dyson
The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.
— Freeman Dyson
The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
— Freeman Dyson
Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths
— Freeman Dyson
Computer models of the climate ... [are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
— Freeman Dyson
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
— Freeman Dyson
The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
— Freeman Dyson
There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global.
— Freeman Dyson
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
— Freeman Dyson
Committees do harm merely by existing.
— Freeman Dyson
The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.
— Freeman Dyson
Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came.
— Freeman Dyson
If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.
— Freeman Dyson
It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
— Freeman Dyson
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.
— Freeman Dyson
[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
— Freeman Dyson
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
— Freeman Dyson
The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
— Freeman Dyson
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.
— Freeman Dyson
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
— Freeman Dyson
There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.
— 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 to read God's mind?
— Freeman Dyson
As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
— Freeman Dyson
Scientists who become icons must not only be geniuses but also performers, playing to the crowd and enjoying public acclaim.
— Freeman Dyson
Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.
— 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
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
CO2 is so beneficial ... it would be crazy to try to reduce it
— Freeman Dyson
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.
— 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
Vegetation is really controlling what happens ... whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.
— Freeman Dyson
To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.
— Freeman Dyson
Most of what we see in the universe is dust.
— Freeman Dyson
The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.
— Freeman Dyson
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
— Freeman Dyson