Freeman Dyson

"Power is the ability to influence others for good."

"The love of money is the root of all evil."

"A sound mind in a healthy body."

"Life is an adventure. Live it fully."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."

"The advancement of technology should serve humanity."

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Philosophy teaches us how to live well."

"Great literature transcends generations."

"Politics should serve the people, not divide them."

"War solves nothing; dialogue solves everything."

"Motivation is temporary; discipline is permanent."

"Inspiration strikes when we are open to possibility."

"I am a scientist, not a humanist, but I think the scientist should be interested in human problems."

"The chief aim of science is not to open the way to infinite knowledge, but to place a limit on infinite error."

"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts."

"One of the great tragedies of science is the steady decline in the influence of beauty."

"I believe it is good to be ambitious and to desire to do great things, but only if the ambition is not destructive."

"The world is in a state of chaos, and we need more poetry and less science to put it right."

"I have always believed that a scientist should be interested in the practical applications of science."

"The dream of every cell is to become two cells."

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

"I don't think we'll ever have a satisfactory understanding of society until we can make experiments with societies."

"History is mostly guessing, and the rest is prejudice."

"What good is a vision if it doesn't change the way you live your life?"

"The most important discoveries come from a mixture of prepared minds and accidents."

"We are not to assume that all that has a real effect on us is real."

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few ideas as possible."

"The question that sometimes drives me haze is, Have I been asked to take on a new career in a field remote from physics?"

"Innovation means saying no to 1000 things."