Freeman Dyson
Unified Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga's QED approaches
Quotes by Freeman Dyson
In the world of the future, the most important intellectual activity will be the design of games.
The universe shows evidence of the workings of a mind, but it is a mind of a different kind from our own.
The carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the lifeblood of the planet.
The climate is an awfully complicated system, and we don't understand it at all.
I think it's much more likely that the changes in climate are due to natural causes than to human activity.
A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.
The problem of the origin of life is the problem of the origin of organization.
The beauty of nature lies in its details; the message of nature lies in its principles.
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages.
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to prepare for it.
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked.
The history of science is full of discoveries that were made by accident, by people who were looking for something else.
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
The division of science into separate disciplines is a historical accident, not a logical necessity.
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
I am a heretic. The world always needs heretics to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies.
The human species will never be wiped out by a natural catastrophe. If we are wiped out, it will be by our own hands.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.
In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on looking at the same thing from different points of view.