Freeman Dyson Quotes About Speculation

Quotes about: Speculation

• When the great innovation appears, it will almost certainly be in muddled, incomplete and confusing form. ... For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Innovation, Confusing

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.138, Pantheon

• For any speculation which does not at first glance look crazy, there is no hope.

  Freeman Dyson

  Crazy, Doe, Looks

• 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, Science, Discovery

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