Freeman Dyson Quotes

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Two men who differ as to the ends of life cannot hope to agree about education.

Football's all about opinions, all of them different, whether from a top analyst or a man in a bunnet, and some folk are just never going to like you.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

... some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely.

If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

there is a pernicious tendency to make the opinions of the expert prevail by crowd methods, to rush the people instead of educating them.

If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop.

Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.

It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it.

The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why.