Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny. Freeman Dyson More Quotes by Freeman Dyson More Quotes From Freeman Dyson We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control. Freeman Dyson global-warming environmental long It is not surprising that honest and well-informed experts can disagree about facts. But beyond the disagreement about facts, there is another deeper disagreement about values. Freeman Dyson honest experts facts Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had. Freeman Dyson nature giving life For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality. Freeman Dyson passion science thinking If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives. Freeman Dyson damnation gambling technology Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox. Freeman Dyson thanks heat discovery The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. Freeman Dyson prove imagine glory The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible. Freeman Dyson law way interesting As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so Freeman Dyson hypothesis fate interesting Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs. Freeman Dyson dubious climate input Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist. Freeman Dyson journalist scientist important Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published. When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in a muddled, incomplete and confusing form. To the discoverer himself it will be only half-understood; to everybody else it will be a mystery. For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope. Freeman Dyson crazy discovery science Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum mechanics. It appears that mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent inherent in every atom. The universe is also weird, with its laws of nature that make it hospitable to the growth of mind. I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it passes beyond the scale of our comprehension. Freeman Dyson choices law mind Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. ... Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature's imagination is richer than ours. Freeman Dyson nature philosophy art The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science. Freeman Dyson one-direction philosophical philosophy We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too. Freeman Dyson carbon-cycle tree science There is no doubt that parts of the world are getting warmer, but the warming is not global. Freeman Dyson global-warming doubt world Climate change is part of the normal order of things, and we know it was happening before humans came. Freeman Dyson climate normal order It makes very little sense to believe the output of the climate models. Freeman Dyson climate littles believe Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere. Freeman Dyson global-warming atmosphere climate
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