Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson FRSis an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. He is professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, a Visitor of Ralston College, and a member of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
technology toys ethics
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
mother animal data
And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
dream butterfly thinking
Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious, it ceases to be of absorbing concern to scientists. Almost all the things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.
real world kind
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.
crazy innovation confusing
When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.
technology morality
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.
fine-tuning known universe
The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.
humanity finals looks
Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.
choices trying way
The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.
design trying way
There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.
art
You could say science also is an art.
matter nasty ifs
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
thinking historical myth
Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths
people ignorant impossible
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.