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  • Physicist
  • born 1923
  • 233 quotes

Freeman Dyson, a physicist (born 1923), is quoted 233 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Thinking, People, Looks and Crazy.

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It's us that's really amazing.

Everything in my life was luck.

You could say science also is an art.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

Most of what we see in the universe is dust.

I think science and religion should be separate.

Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.

The universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

I'm happy that I've raised six kids, and not one of them is a Ph.D.

It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy.

We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

We simply don't know yet what's going to happen to the carbon in the atmosphere.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

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

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