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...
ignorant done imagine
Do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant.
harm committees
Committees do harm merely by existing.
dust universe
Most of what we see in the universe is dust.
engineering orchids snakes
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
theory corpses unified
The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.
garden wind ramanujan
The seeds from Ramanujan's garden have been blowing on the wind and have been sprouting all over the landscape. [On the stimulating effects of Ramanujan's mathematical legacy.]
technology toys ethics
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.
path becoming computer
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
made mathematician subjects
[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians
fighting causes ends
In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
eye years one-day
I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.
matter nasty ifs
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
design trying way
There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.
choices trying way
The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.