Freeman Dyson Quotes

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

My view is that you don't tell the universe what to do. The universe is how it is, and it's our job to figure it out.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

The universe is an intelligence test.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It includes the seen as well as the unseen, the possible as well as the actual, Nature and Nature's God, mind and matter. I am lost in admiration of the effulgent blaze of ideas it calls forth.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

You can't have a universe without the mind entering into it.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Our life is a creation of our mind.

I believe that reality is vastly richer than the cursory attention we usually give it permits us to understand. I like to write through a consciousness that allows me to suggest something of this richness.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

We are actually fourth dimensional beings in a third dimensional body inhabiting a second dimensional world!

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe.

Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.