[b]Freeman Dyson
If you don’t have a nasty obituary you probably didn’t matter.[/b]
What might your own say? You know, if you matter.
The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it’s mostly rubbish.
Thank God for Fox News, right?
If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination.
Sure, a Creator.
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.
In other words, blah, blah, blah.
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, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.
In fact, science is often a collection of truths. Let’s say for all practical purposes.
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 as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.
Or course it almost seems other things too.