The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, …

- Freeman Dyson

When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at f…

- Freeman Dyson

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?

- Freeman Dyson

The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it. A field of corn grow…

- Freeman Dyson

As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems a…

- Freeman Dyson

Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

- Freeman Dyson

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

- Freeman Dyson

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

- Freeman Dyson

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

- Freeman Dyson