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Explore our hand-picked selection of 228 inspiring quotes by Freeman Dyson.

About Freeman Dyson

  • Born: December 15, 1923
  • Occupation: Physicist
    • Mostly i'm just writing books for the public, and so i try to describe for the public what the choices are, what they might have to expect in the future and so by warning people ahead of time maybe you have an effect.
    Book Writing People
    I think the fact that aldous huxley wrote brave new world and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.
    War Brave New World Thinking
    I grew up in england and we spent most of the time on latin and greek and very little on science, and i think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. it was... science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.
    Fun Latin Thinking
    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.
    War Mean Nuclear
    I don't know, but i think it's quite possible that the more science you teach kids in school the more it turns them off, so i don't know. i mean you never can tell which way it will go.
    School Mean Kids
    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.
    Book Writing Thinking
    Science was blamed for all the horrors of world war i, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. i mean world war i was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these nobel prizes.
    War Mean Winning
    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.
    Strong Jobs Should Have
    Well germ warfare of course exists. there have been on a small scale... there have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in princeton.
    People Warfare Germs
    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.
    Opportunity Trying Different
    The thing that makes me most optimistic is china and india - both of them doing well.
    Optimistic India China
    You could say science also is an art.
    Art
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