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 the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

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.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox.

There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Everything in my life was luck.

Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

It's us that's really amazing.

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.

That's what I learned from World War II. Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

You could say science also is an art.

I think science and religion should be separate.

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly.

I don't know, but I think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so I don't know. I mean you never can tell which way it will go.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.

my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.

When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.