Ru Freeman Quotes

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.

Creation and creativity are inextricably linked.

Thirty-six satisfactory exposures on a roll means a photographer is not trying anything new

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

The abstracting of visual elements in order to recognize their particularity has become automatic, but seeing, combining, and creating them as integrated 'wholes' will remain a lifelong challenge.

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

I photograph Nature, which includes human beings.

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

After a great game or a great practice, man, I feel on top of the world.

My job as a leader is not to say, 'Hey, look at me. I'm a leader.' It's to lead. I mean, I've got to go out and find ways to win these games.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Understanding why is never enough.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.