Freeman Dyson

The Dyson Sphere is a shell built around a star to capture its entire energy output.

Birds fly high in the air and survey the vistas of the world around them... I had a dream of flying like a bird.

The diversity of life is the glory of this planet.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

When you look at the universe from the point of view of a physicist, you realize that it’s made of stories, not of atoms.

The hardest part of doing science is to keep your head clear and ask the right questions.

I have found a universe growing without limit in richness and complexity, a universe of life surviving forever and making itself known to its neighbors across unimaginable gulfs of space and time.

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

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

The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.

In the history of science, we often find that studying the simplest questions leads to the most profound discoveries.

The stars are like animals in the zoo. We can study them, but we cannot feed them or teach them tricks.

I think it's better to be a rebel than a slave.

The human race is a passing episode in the history of the universe, but we are an episode that can think and create.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

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

The vision of the future as an infinite playground is a beautiful and inspiring one.

The most important thing about science is that it is a human activity, and the most important thing about humanity is that it is capable of science.