Freeman Dyson
British-American · 1923–2020
Theoretical physicist and public intellectual who championed the diversity of life and ideas, questioned scientific orthodoxy, and envisioned the long-term future of intelligence in the cosmos.
Wikipedia ↗“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.”
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“It is better to be wrong than to be vague. A theory that is precise enough to be wrong is far more useful than one so flexible it can accommodate any result.”
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“A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.”
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“The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the richness of discovery and the beauty of the solution depended on finding the right structure. Finding it is like finding a key that opens a door — suddenly everything falls into place.”
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“The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. The glory of art is to feel more than we can understand.”
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“You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?”
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“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”
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