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“If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel

“Much of the history of science, like the history of religion, is a history of struggles driven by power and money. And yet this is not the whole story. Genuine saints occasionally play an important role, both in religion and in science. Einstein was an important figure in the history of science, and he was a firm believer in transcendence. For Einstein, science as a way of escape from mundane reality was no pretense. For many scientists less divinely gifted than Einstein, the chief reward for being a scientist is not the power and the money but the chance of catching a glimpse of the transcendent beauty of nature.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel

“We must regard science, then, from three points of view. First, it is the free activity of man's divine faculties of reason and imagination. Secondly, it is the answer of the few to the demands of the many for wealth, comfort and victory, gifts which it will grant only in exchange for peace, security and stagnation. Finally it is man's gradual conquest, first of space and time, the of matters as such, then of his own body and those of other living beings, and finally the subjugation of the dark and evil elements in his own soul.”
― Freeman Dyson, The Scientist as Rebel

“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