The progress of science requires the growth of understanding in both directions, downward from the whole to the parts and upward from the parts to the whole. A reductionist philosophy, arbitrarily proclaiming that the growth of understanding must go only in one direction, makes no scientific sense. Indeed, dogmatic philosophical beliefs of any kind have no place in science.
Freeman DysonMind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
Freeman DysonAs finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.
Freeman Dyson