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...
running
Of course, long-distance running has to do with the fact that we're hunters.
running mean animal
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive.
hard program turn welfare
It's a welfare program for the industry, so it's hard to turn off.
boring
Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.
certainly lives people risking
It was people risking their lives to do something that hadn't been done before. That's certainly something good.
beautiful beautiful-things
That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.
beautiful
If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.
beautiful country tree
Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.
mystery
In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.
optimistic
The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.
together science-and-religion
Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.
athletic enjoy prove
I just enjoy calculating, and it's an instrument I know how to play. It's almost an athletic performance, in a way. I was just watching the Olympics, and that's how I feel when proving a theorem.
luck language speak
The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.
luck
Everything in my life was luck.