Freeman Dyson Trying Quotations

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.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it