“It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.”
― Freeman Dyson, quote from Disturbing the Universe
“Sanity is, in essence, nothing more than the ability to live in harmony with nature's laws.”
― Freeman Dyson, quote from Disturbing the Universe
“I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe is some sense must have known that we were coming”
― Freeman Dyson, quote from Disturbing the Universe
“It is impossible to make real progress in technology without gambling.”
― Freeman Dyson, quote from Disturbing the Universe
“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, quote from Disturbing the Universe
“It is important for long-range stability that peaceful countries be well armed and well organized in self-defense.”
― Freeman Dyson, quote from Disturbing the Universe
Freeman Dyson
Born place: in Crowthorne, Berkshire, The United Kingdom
Born date December 15, 1923
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“Onde estaríamos sem amanhãs? O que teríamos em vez disso seriam hoje. E, se esse fosse o caso, com você, eu esperaria que hoje fosse o dia mais longo. Eu encheria o hoje de você, fazendo tudo o que sempre amei. Eu riria, falaria, ouviria e aprenderia, eu amaria, amaria, amaria. Faria todos os dias serem hoje e passaria todos com você, e nunca me preocuparia com o amanhã, quando não estaria com você. E, quando aquele temido amanhã chegar para nós, por favor, saiba que eu não quis deixá-lo, ou ser deixada para trás, que cada momento que passei com você foram os melhores momentos da minha vida.”
― Cecelia Ahern, quote from How to Fall in Love
“Love is a response to values. The amoralist’s actual self-appraisal is revealed in his abnormal need to be loved (but not in the rational sense of the word)—to be “loved for himself,” i.e., causelessly. James Taggart reveals the nature of such a need: “I don’t want to be loved for anything. I want to be loved for myself—not for anything I do or have or say or think. For myself—not for my body or mind or words or works or actions.” (Atlas Shrugged.) When his wife asks: “But then . . . what is yourself?” he has no answer.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from Philosophy: Who Needs It
“The division of one day from the next must be one of the most profound peculiarities of life on this planet. It is, on the whole, a merciful arrangement. We are not condemned to sustained flights of being, but are constantly refreshed by little holidays from ourselves. . . .”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from Lost
“Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.”
― Lauren Conrad, quote from L.A. Candy
“The Public School, he had long ago decided, was neurotic. It wanted a world in which nothing new came about, in which there were no surprises. And that was the world of the compulsive-obsessive neurotic; it was not a healthy world at all.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Martian Time-Slip
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