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...
science weather meteorology
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann's aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations.
science voice giving
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.
science imagination may
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination, but Nature was not. The same pathological structures that the mathematicians invented to break loose from 19th-century naturalism turn out to be inherent in familiar objects all around us.
revenge science boys
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ... We learned that science is a revenge of victims against oppressors, that science is a territory of freedom and friendship in the midst of tyranny and hatred.
art philosophical science
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours.
mean science carbon-cycle
The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
science imagination world
One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.
thinking science-and-religion
I think science and religion should be separate.
together science-and-religion
Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
science understanding mind
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
different window science-and-religion
Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows.
science engineering ideas
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. There are no prima donnas in engineering.
bit close crash flying
Politically speaking, of course, they have to keep flying it a bit longer. Hopefully, it will close down before they crash it again.
certainly lives people risking
It was people risking their lives to do something that hadn't been done before. That's certainly something good.