Science and religion are, of course, two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. Freeman Dyson More Quotes by Freeman Dyson More Quotes From Freeman Dyson I think we're doing pretty well. It's clear the media, of course, always gives you the bad news. Freeman Dyson media giving thinking Things are always more complicated than most people believe. Freeman Dyson complicated believe people The key to having an interesting life is to always say "yes" to anything crazy. Freeman Dyson crazy keys interesting Everything in my life was luck. Freeman Dyson luck 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. Freeman Dyson pieces language luck You have this world of mathematics, which is very real and which contains all kinds of wonderful stuff. And then we also have the world of nature, which is real, too. Freeman Dyson real stuff world Mathematics is really an art, not a science. Freeman Dyson mathematics art 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. Freeman Dyson thames london beautiful 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. Freeman Dyson tree beautiful country 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. Freeman Dyson olympics athletic play I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines. Freeman Dyson progress people thinking 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. Freeman Dyson beautiful-things courses beautiful Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate. Freeman Dyson science-and-religion my-friends together I think science and religion should be separate. Freeman Dyson science-and-religion should thinking In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries. Freeman Dyson supposed-to-be mystery Theory said one thing and the experiment said something different, so that was the stimulus that started me going, that there was something there to be explained, which wasn't understood and to try to see why that experiment gave the answer it did, so it was a big opportunity for a young student starting to have actually an experiment which contradicted the theory, so that's was my chance to understand that. Freeman Dyson different opportunity trying Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds. Freeman Dyson strong should-have jobs I mean science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. Freeman Dyson nuclear war mean Some things go better than you expected, other things go worse, so I'm... I think the only sensible thing is just to wait and see and what I'm doing when I'm writing books - I'm not doing science so much anymore. Freeman Dyson writing book thinking I think it's much better to have your eyes open, but on the other hand, of course it can do harm if you tell people look, there's all these terrible things you can do and then some idiot may go ahead and do it. Freeman Dyson eye hands thinking
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