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Freeman Dyson Quotes

1923–2020 England

Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was an English-born American physicist, mathematician, and futurist, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He was the winner of the Templeton Prize in the year 2000.

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The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Imagined Worlds (1997)

Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

An awareness of our smallness may help to redeem us from the arrogance which is the besetting sin of the scientists.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

There is no such thing as a unique scientific vision, any more than there is a unique poetic vision. Science is a mosaic of partial and conflicting visions.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond our comprehension.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

We stand, in a manner of speaking, midway between the unpredictability of atoms and the unpredictability of God.

Progress In Religion (2000)

The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.

There is no easy solution to the conflict between fundamentalist Christian dogma and the facts of biological evolution.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The most salient features of all these enterprises are discipline and diversity.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

Nature's imagination is always richer than ours.

It is too early yet to come to conclusions.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Disturbing the Universe (1979)

Our grey technology of machines and computers will not disappear, but green technology will be moving ahead even faster.

Progress In Religion (2000)

It's a real problem, but it's nothing like as serious as people are led to believe.

Science is not a monolithic body of doctrine. Science is a culture, constantly growing and changing.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

A point has no existence by itself. It exists only as a part of the pattern of relationships which constitute the geometry of Euclid.

Infinite in All Directions (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Freeman Dyson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.