Freeman Dyson Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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, Art, Philosophy

• Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

  Freeman Dyson

  Science, Reality, Understanding

• 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

  Science, Carbon Cycle, Tree

  Freeman Dyson (2013). “FROM EROS TO GAIA”, p.172, Pantheon

• 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

  Philosophy, Philosophical, One Direction

  John Cornwell, Freeman J. Dyson (1995). “Nature's imagination: the frontiers of scientific vision”, Oxford University Press, USA

• 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.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Brave New World, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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