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“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of tyranny, but not against all.”
― Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe

“What I criticize under the name Utopian engineering recommends the reconstruction of society as a whole, i.e. very sweeping changes whose practical consequences are hard to calculate, owing to our limited experiences. It claims to plan rationally for the whole of society, although we do not possess anything like the factual knowledge which would be necessary to make good such an ambitious claim.”
― Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

“It is important for long-range stability that peaceful countries be well armed and well organized in self-defense.”
― Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe

“My message is that science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practice it.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel