It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
It is remarkable that mind enters into our awareness of nature on two separate levels. At the highest level, the level of human consciousness, our minds are somehow directly aware of the complicated flow of electrical and chemical patterns in our brains. At the lowest level, the level of single atoms and electrons, the mind of an observer is again involved in the description of events. Between lies the level of molecular biology, where mechanical models are adequate and mind appears to be irrelevant. But I, as a physicist, cannot help suspecting that there is a logical connection between the two ways in which mind appears in my universe. I cannot help thinking that our awareness of our own brains has something to do with the process which we call "observation" in atomic physics. That is to say, I think our consciousness is not just a passive epiphenomenon carried along by the chemical events in our brains, but is an active agent forcing the molecular complexes to make choices between one quantum state and another. In other words, mind is already inherent in every electron, and the processes of human consciousness differ only in degree but not in kind from the processes of choice between quantum states which we call "chance" when they are made by electrons.
Freeman DysonIt is better to be wrong than to be vague.
Freeman DysonThe nonliving universe is as diverse and as dynamic as the living universe, and is also dominated by patterns of organization that are not yet understood.
Freeman DysonThe glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.
Freeman DysonTag: freeman-dyson immanuel-velikovsky jim-carter lord-kelvin physics-on-the-fringe sir-arthur-eddington the-new-york-review-of-books
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so
Freeman DysonA good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
Freeman DysonTag: science inspirational intellectual
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The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Freeman DysonTag: humanity space exploration destiny
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