Freeman Dyson Quotes

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.

I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

He who dares not reason, is a slave.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

I always strive for freedom: freedom of thought and expression.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

A necessary corollary of giving individuals freedom to choose how to conduct their lives is acceptance of the fact that different individuals will make different choices.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

Freedom is the right to choose the habits that bind you.

What, in the end, is freedom but the ability to choose?

The more, therefore, we consider man to be free, the less we can say, that he can neglect to use reason

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all.

Wherever people find themselves in trouble, or at some kind of crossroads, the series proclaims you are free to choose. That's the deepest lesson of 'Star Wars.'