Freeman Dyson Quotes

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious. . . . I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

The entire universe is nothing but a great metaphor.

If you believe something, you can have a morality that means something as well. You can feel recognized as an individual within the universe; it can give meaning to who you are.

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.