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Quotes from The Scientist As Rebel — Freeman Dyson

1923–2020 England

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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)

I have to clear away a few popular misconceptions about space as a habitat … It is generally considered that planets are important. Except for Earth, they are not.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

It belongs to everybody who is willing to make the effort to learn it. And what is true of science is true of poetry. ... Poetry and science are gifts given to all of humanity.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

Nobody knows what dark matter is. It is another deep mystery waiting to be explored. We know only that it is there, and that it weighs more than the stuff that we can see.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian. ...It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

Astronomers have so far escaped the extreme specialization that has overtaken physicists. Telescopes are big, but they are not as complicated as accelerators. Observations with a big telescope can be carried out in hours rather than years.

The Scientist As Rebel (2006)

Attribution

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